Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1938

Boy Meets Girl (Warner Bros.) goes like a house afire when James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, as a pair of screwloose screenwriters, are expounding their Boy-Girl theory of cinema, imitating two British guardsmen, acting five parts at once in one of their screen plays, generally giving the impression of being possessed of a legion of March hares. But when Boy Bruce Lester meets Girl Marie Wilson, an inclination to dawdle sets in. Both versions of Boy Meets Girl were written by Bella & Samuel Spewack. After much thought last week on the question, Was...

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