Youth Takes a Fling
1938 film by Archie Mayo
- September 23, 1938 (1938-09-23)
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Youth Takes a Fling is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Joel McCrea.
One of Leeds relatively few films, both she and McCrea were loaned to Universal from Samuel Goldwyn.
Plot
Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea, moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor. He 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.
Cast
- Joel McCrea as Joe Meadows
- Andrea Leeds as Helen Brown
- Frank Jenks as Frank Munson
- Dorothea Kent as Jean
- Isabel Jeans as Mrs. Merrivale
- Virginia Grey as Madge
- Grant Mitchell as Duke
- Henry Mollison as Dunham
- Brandon Tynan as Tad
- Oscar O'Shea as Captain Walters
- Granville Bates as Mr. Judd
- Roger Davis as Floorwalker
- Marion Martin as Girl on Beach
- Olaf Hytten as Dunham's Butler
- Willie Best as George
- Catherine Proctor as Mrs. Aspitt
- Yvonne Boisseau as Miss Beaton
- Arthur Housman as First Communist
- John Sheehan as Second Communist
- Chester Clute as Salesman
- Wade Boteler as Tugboat Captain
- Tom Dugan as Bum
- Eddie Acuff as Bum
- Mary Field as Maid
References
- ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 116. ISBN 9780813158891.
External links
- Youth Takes a Fling at IMDb
- Youth Takes a Fling at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Archie Mayo
- Money Talks (1926)
- Christine of the Big Tops (1926)
- Unknown Treasures (1926)
- Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927)
- Dearie (1927)
- Slightly Used (1927)
- The College Widow (1927)
- Quarantined Rivals (1927)
- State Street Sadie (1928)
- Beware of Married Men (1928)
- The Crimson City (1928)
- On Trial (1928)
- My Man (1928)
- Sonny Boy (1929)
- Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
- The Sap (1929)
- The Sacred Flame (1929)
- Wide Open (1930)
- Courage (1930)
- Oh Sailor Behave (1930)
- The Doorway to Hell (1930)
- Illicit (1931)
- Svengali (1931)
- Bought (1931)
- Under Eighteen (1931)
- The Expert (1932)
- Night After Night (1932)
- Two Against the World (1932)
- Street of Women (1932)
- The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
- The Mayor of Hell (1933)
- Ever in My Heart (1933)
- Convention City (1933)
- Gambling Lady (1934)
- The Man with Two Faces (1934)
- Desirable (1934)
- Give Me Your Heart (1934)
- Bordertown (1935)
- Go into Your Dance (1935)
- The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
- The Petrified Forest (1936)
- I Married a Doctor (1936)
- Black Legion (1937)
- It's Love I'm After (1937)
- The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
- Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
- They Shall Have Music (1939)
- The House Across the Bay (1940)
- Four Sons (1940)
- The Great American Broadcast (1941)
- Charley's Aunt (1941)
- Confirm or Deny (1941)
- Moontide (1942)
- Orchestra Wives (1942)
- Crash Dive (1943)
- Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
- A Night in Casablanca (1946)
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
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