Meet the Boy Friend

1937

Comedy / Music / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 146 146

bus musical singer insurance policy

Plot summary

A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.

Director

Ralph Staub Photo
Ralph Staub

Top cast

Jack Raymond Photo
Jack Raymond as Henchman
June Gittelson Photo
June Gittelson as Fat Girl
Frank Mills Photo
Frank Mills as Taxi Driver
King Mojave Photo
King Mojave as Waiter
720p.WEB
492.35 MB
1280*718
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 53 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 5 / 10

A melody of looniness.

Reviewed by 5 / 10

Decent Musical Comedy

Robert Paige is 'America's Boyfriend', a radio crooner who likes to slip away to take a day gig as a sign painter or busboy, stealing jobs he doesn't need from the working poor. His boss at the radio station, Andrew Tombes, is worried he'll marry Swedish girlfriend Gwili Andre and ruin his amateur standing, so he decides to get an insurance policy against his wedding. The carrier is interested, so he has niece/investigator Carol Hughes check him out. He's bored with women throwing themselves at him, so they decide the best way to keep him unmarried is to have Miss Hughes pose as a girl who needs his help but holds him off. This works until he finds out the scheme. In the meantime, of course, she's fallen in love with him.It's a decent musical comedy from Republic, one of those movies in which eccentrics surrounding the boy-meets-girl plot supply the comedy, among them Pert Kelton as Tombles' annoyingly nitwitted wife. the leads can sing well, but the songs sound like they've been pulled out of the trunk.Robert Paige was born John Arthur Paige, was appearing under the stage name of David Carlyle and his character's name is Tony Page. He was born in 1910 is was made for light comedies. He was good looking, sang well, and didn't fall over the furniture. He broke into the movies in 1934 and his last role was in 1963's BYE BYE BIRDIE. He died in 1987.
Reviewed by 10 / 10

Roll with laughter

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