Boy Meets Girl 1938

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A likable spoof of Hollywood (1938), with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as fast-talking screenwriters, and Marie Wilson (the original dumb blond) around for pulchritudinous laughs. Read more

New York Times: Nearly all the lines which the script could least afford to spare have been dropped, presumably because of conflict with the delicately casuistical Hays code of morals. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The picture version of this comedy classic is a little more than adequate but not socko. Read more