Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl (1935), a comedy by Bella and Sam Spewack. [ Cort Theatre, 669 perf.] Robert Law (Allyn Joslyn) and J. Carlyle Benson (Jerome Cowan) are two rambunctious, practical‐joking screenwriters who simply cannot become serious when told they must devise a scenario to save fading cowboy star Larry Toms (Charles McClelland). “Even Wilkes‐Barre doesn't want him, and they're still calling for Theda Bara.” Learning that a pregnant studio waitress, Susie (Joyce Arling), is about to give birth, Law and Benson obtain power of attorney and set about making the baby Toms's costar. The tot's popularity saves Toms's career, but when a lawyer wrests the power of attorney from the writers, Law and Carlyle attempt to destroy the baby's vogue by hiring a studio extra, Rodney (James MacColl), to claim he is the baby's real father. Susie and Rodney had once met and fallen in love, but she stubbornly plans to run off with Toms until he catches measles from the baby and shows his true dislike for the tot. So Susie ends up with Rodney, who turns out to be a titled Englishman. “An extraordinarily hilarious comedy,” as Brooks Atkinson observed, the play was not only a telling spoof of Hollywood in general, but a particularly adroit send‐up of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the real life counterparts of Law and Carlyle. Producer‐director George Abbott kept the “madcap fooling at high speed,” filling the stage with a variety of Hollywood moguls, yes‐men, players, midgets, and blaring trumpeters.

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• Genres: Rock
• Representative Albums: "Boy Meets Girl", "Reel Life
• Representative Songs: "Waiting for a Star to Fall

Biography

Following their meeting at a wedding at which the two were hired to perform, Seattle natives George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam formed the pop group Boy Meets Girl. Their eponymous 1985 debut featured the single "Oh Girl," but it was the duo's penning of two hits for Whitney Houston that established them as songwriters. "How Will I Know" topped the pop and R&B charts, while "I Wanna Dance With Somebody [Who Loves Me]" won the Grammy for Song of the Year. Returning to Boy Meets Girl, Merrill and Rubicam issued Reel Life in 1988. "Waiting for a Star to Fall" reached the top 5 in the US and went #1 in Europe; "Bring Down the Moon," its follow-up single, also charted. Boy Meets Girl also recorded the 1991 album New Dream, but it was shelved before release. Merrill and Rubicam worked mostly as songwriters throughout the 1990s, scoring hits for the UK dance-pop groups OTT and Girlthing. Then in 2003 they revived Boy Meets Girl with the self-released Wonderground. A quiet, charming album, it dealt with their past as soft rock hitmakers, the dissolution of their marriage, and the state of life in the present. In 2005 the duo released fully remastered versions of Boy Meets Girl's recordings, including the never-released '91 album New Dream. ~ Tom Demalon, All Music Guide

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