Howard Hawkes may have perfected that overlapping breakneck style in "His Girl Friday", but it wasn't the first film he used it in. It's also evident in his 1934 mail-pilot drama "Ceiling Zero", where it was extremely well suited to rapid-fire verbalists James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
Ralph Bellamy had also had some practice at keeping up with cinematic madness. In 1937, he played a similar beleaguered odd-man-out role as a studio exec in "Boy Meets Girl", and he was the only other member of the cast who could remotely hold his own against Jimmy and Pat's dizzy lunacy.
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Ralph Bellamy had also had some practice at keeping up with cinematic madness. In 1937, he played a similar beleaguered odd-man-out role as a studio exec in "Boy Meets Girl", and he was the only other member of the cast who could remotely hold his own against Jimmy and Pat's dizzy lunacy.
The second set of HGF icons is up, by the way. :)