Meet the Boyfriend (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 53 min · dir. Ralph Staub
THEY EVEN TOOK OUT INSURANCE TO KEEP HIM FROM GETTING MARRIED!
- Romance
- Music
- Comedy
Synopsis
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. Hilarious film!
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Ralph Staub
- Writer
- Bradford Ropes
- Studio
- Republic Pictures
- Released
- 1937-07-12
- Running time
- 53 minutes
Cast & crew
- Ralph Staub Director
Robert Paige
Carol Hughes
Warren Hymer
Pert Kelton
Andrew Tombes
Gwili Andre- Ed 'Oscar' Platt
- Lou Fulton
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · It's a comedy · jimelena · 2006-05-24
Tony is a "regular fellow" who despises the phoniness of show business. When an actress sets her sights on him, his sponsor takes out a $300,000 no-marriage insurance policy. Tony challenges the policy but changes his mind. Some people like these kinds of comedies, this one in all right I guess. At least I like the actors.
★★★ · Gee wiz · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-02-20
I was gonna be America's boyfriend, but I was born ugly and can't sing. I can pass gas though so I guess not all is lost. Kind of a corny flick and a bit out of date, but in 1937 this is the kind of stuff the kids ate up. A shill with utterly no talent that they sold as wonderful..Justine Bieber anyone? Actually this Tony Paige character had talent unlike the current shill they're trying to pawn off on kids.
