Classic comedy. Many think the main characters were based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, as a successful pair of screenwriters whose every work is a variation of the "boy meets girl" plot. Between the Covers, rare book dealers in Gloucester City, NJ, however, has been informed that the main characters were based on the prolific screenwriters Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt, Jones in particular was a one-man screenpaly factory. The play was the basis for the 1938 Lloyd Bacon-directed film featuring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, and which also numbered Ralph Bellamy and Ronald Reagan among the cast. Reagan played the role of "Radio announcer at premiere". Would to God he had remained in that capacity! ( )