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Youth Takes a Fling is a 1938 American comedy film starring Joel McCrea.
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
One of Leeds relatively few films, both she and McCrea were loaned to Universal from Samuel Goldwyn.
Original Release
09/23/1938
US Release
09/23/1938
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joel McCrea | Joe Meadows |
Andrea Leeds | Helen Brown |
Frank Jenks | Frank Munson |
Dorothea Kent | Jean |
Isabel Jeans | Mrs. Merrivale |
Virginia Grey | Madge |
Grant Mitchell | Duke |
Henry Mollison | Dunham |
Brandon Tynan | Tad |
Oscar O'Shea | Captain Walters |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joel McCrea | Joe Meadows |
Andrea Leeds | Helen Brown |
Frank Jenks | Frank Munson |
Dorothea Kent | Jean |
Isabel Jeans | Mrs. Merrivale |
Virginia Grey | Madge |
Grant Mitchell | Duke |
Henry Mollison | Dunham |
Brandon Tynan | Tad |
Oscar O'Shea | Captain Walters |
Granville Bates | Mr. Judd |
Roger Davis | Floorwalker |
Marion Martin | Girl on Beach |
Olaf Hytten | Dunham's Butler |
Catherine Proctor | Mrs. Aspitt |
Yvonne Boisseau | Miss Beaton |
Arthur Housman | First Communist |
John Sheehan | Second Communist |
Chester Clute | Salesman |
Wade Boteler | Tugboat Captain |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Joe Pasternak | Producer |