Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

5.5/10 77 min Romance Comedy

Overview

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.

Cast

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

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Marion Martin

Girl on Beach

Olaf Hytten

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Willie Best

George

Catherine Proctor

Mrs. Aspitt

Arthur Housman

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John Sheehan

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Chester Clute

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