Movie: Youth Takes a Fling

Top 10 Billed Cast

Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea

Joe Meadows

Andrea Leeds
Andrea Leeds

Helen Brown

Frank Jenks
Frank Jenks

Frank Munson

Dorothea Kent
Dorothea Kent

Jean

Isabel Jeans
Isabel Jeans

Mrs. Merrivale

Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey

Madge

Grant Mitchell
Grant Mitchell

Duke

Henry Mollison
Henry Mollison

Dunham

Brandon Tynan
Brandon Tynan

Tad

Oscar O'Shea
Oscar O'Shea

Captain Walters

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1938-09-22

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  • Tagline

    A PICTURE FOR THE YOUNG...OF ALL AGES!

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  • Languages:

    English
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