Boy Meets Girl

Summary: Granada Television production for ITV of Boy Meets Girl by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack.
Theatre play: Boy Meets Girl by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack [more information]
Play synopsis: This comedy, ‘Played against a Hollywood background, [tells] of a studio waitress who, coming into the office of a big-shot producer, announces she is going to have a baby. Two clever writers get the idea of starring the as-yet-unborn infant with Larry Toms, cowboy film hero. The clever boys who had the idea in the first place are done out of a managing contract and bent on revenge, do their utmost to discredit the infant by hiring someone to claim to be his father. The mother, however, marries the son of an English lord. The writers, on the point of ruin, put over a slick deal in a scene of hilarious comedy by engineering a questionable arrangement between their studio and big foreign studio.' Source: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1864.
Production history: Dated to 1936, the play ran for 669 performances in New York. It was performed in London shortly before WWII.
Date of transmission: Wednesday 12 June 1957
Time: 8.00pm
Series: Play of the Week
Channel: ITV
Production company: Granada Television (1956-)

Director

Silvio Narizzano

Playwright

Bella Spewack

Playwright

Sam Spewack

Adapted for Television by

John Glennon

Cast

Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: American drama; comedy; film, as theme; theatre or acting, as theme

Title: Hollywood in No Danger from its Challenger: A Satirical Broadside Misfires (Newspaper review)
Author/creator: Bernard Levin (Reviewer)
Reference: The Manchester Guardian, 15 June 1957, p. 3

Title: Plays for the Millions: The First 75. A Cross Index of Granada TV Play Productions (Book)
Reference: Published by Granada TV Network, 1960

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