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Youth Takes a Fling

10 %|Sep 22, 1938|Romance, Comedy

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.

Featured Crew

Archie Mayo
Director
Joe Pasternak
Producer
Myles Connolly
Screenplay
Eliot Gibbons
Story

Cast

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Joel McCrea
Joe Meadows
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Andrea Leeds
Helen Brown
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Frank Jenks
Frank Munson
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Isabel Jeans
Mrs. Merrivale
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Oscar O'Shea
Captain Walters
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Roger Davis
Floorwalker
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Marion Martin
Girl on Beach
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Olaf Hytten
Dunham's Butler
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Yvonne Boisseau
Miss Beaton
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Arthur Housman
First Communist
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John Sheehan
Second Communist
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Wade Boteler
Tugboat Captain
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Pat West
Watchman
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Edwin August
Railroad Conductor
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Joyce Bryant
Switchboard Operator
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Nick Copeland
Minor Role
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Neal Dodd
Minister
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Edward Earle
Businessman
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Jennifer Gray
Switchboard Operator
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Evie Wynn Johnson
Switchboard Operator
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Marjorie Kane
Switchboard Operator
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Kathryn Marlowe
Switchboard Operator
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Marion Pierce
Switchboard Operator
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Emmett Vogan
Businessman
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Beryl Wallace
Switchboard Operator
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Solly Ward
Minor Role
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Anne Wigton
Switchboard Operator