''Meet the Boyfriend'' is a 1937 American film directed by
Ralph Staub.
Plot summary
A heartthrob singer, Tony Page, 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 $300,000 insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl named 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.
Cast
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Robert Paige as Tony Page
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Carol Hughes as June Delaney
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Warren Hymer as Wilbur 'Bugs' Corrigan
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Pert Kelton
Pert or PERT may refer to:
Ships
* - see List of United States Navy ships: P
* , a World War II corvette, originally HMS ''Nepeta''
* ''Pert'' (sidewheeler), a 19th-century steamboat that operated in British Columbia, Canada
Statistics
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as Beulah Potts
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Andrew Tombes as J. Ardmore Potts
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Gwili Andre as Vilma Vlare
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Ed 'Oscar' Platt as Oscar
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Lou Fulton Lou may refer to:
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* Lou (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
*Lou (German singer)
*Lou (French singer)
* Lou (surname 娄), the 229th most common surname in China
* Lou (surname 楼), the 269th most common ...
as Elmer
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Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and ...
as Orchestra Leader
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Leonid Kinskey as Dr. Sokoloff
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Syd Saylor as Buddy
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Selmer Jackson
Selmer Adolf Jackson (May 7, 1888 – March 30, 1971) was an American stage film and television actor. He appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963. His name was sometimes spelled Selmar Jackson.
Jackson was born in Lake Mills, Iowa an ...
as Madison
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Cy Kendall as Walters
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Robert Middlemass as McGrath
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Mary Gordon as Mrs. Grimes
Soundtrack
* "Sweet Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)" (Written by Harry Tobias and Roy Ingraham)
* "You Are My Rosebud" (Music by
Alberto Colombo
Alberto Colombo (born 23 February 1946 in Varedo, Lombardy) is a former racing driver from Italy. He unsuccessfully entered three Formula One Grands Prix in 1978 with ATS (two failures to qualify) and Merzario (one failure to pre-qualify). He won ...
/ Lyrics by
Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and ...
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* "Singing My Hillbilly Song" (Written by Smiley Burnette)
* "To Know You Care" (Written by
Harry Tobias
Harry Tobias (September 11, 1895 – December 15, 1994) was an American lyricist. Like his younger brother Charles, he is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Born in New York City, United States, but raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, ...
and
Roy Ingraham
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin.
In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...
)
* "This Business of Love" (Written by Harry Tobias and Roy Ingraham)
External links
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1937 romantic comedy films
1937 films
American black-and-white films
American romantic comedy films
Republic Pictures films
Films directed by Ralph Staub
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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