Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

86 mins | Comedy | Aug. 27, 1938

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...

Boy Meets Girl

86 mins | Comedy | Aug. 27, 1938

Boy Meets Girl
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures
Original title Boy Meets Girl
Directors Lloyd Bacon
Writers Bella Spewack, Sam Spewack

Cast

James Cagney

as Robert Law

Pat O’Brien

as J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson

Marie Wilson

as Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook

Ralph Bellamy

as C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday

Frank McHugh

as Rossetti

Dick Foran

as Larry Toms

Bruce Lester

as Rodney Bowman

Ronald Reagan

as Announcer

Paul Clark

as Happy

Penny Singleton

as Peggy

Dennie Moore

as Miss Crews

Harry Seymour

as Song Writer

Bert Hanlon

as Song Writer

James Stephenson

as Major Thompson

Curt Bois

as Dance Director

Loia Cheaney

as Hospital Nurse

Eddie Conrad

as Jascha Alexander

Hal K. Dawson

as Wardrobe Attendant

Otto Fries

as Olaf - Masseur

John Harron

as Extra Talking to Rodney

George Hickman

as Office Boy

Jan Holm

as Hospital Nurse with Letter

Bert Howard

as Director

Nenette Lafayette

as Paris Operator

Carole Landis

as Commissary Cashier

Vera Lewis

as Studio Cleaning Woman

Peggy Moran

as New York Operator

James Nolan

as Young Man Brought in for Susie

John Ridgely

as Simmons - Friday's Film Cutter

Cliff Saum

as Smitty - Studio Policeman

Mary Ann Such

as Young Girl

William Telaak

as Bruiser

Rosella Towne

as Hospital Nurse Wheeling Larry

Dorothy Vaughan

as Happy's Nurse

Pierre Watkin

as B.K. Whitacre