Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling
Release: 1938-09-22
·Runtime: 77m
·★ 1.0
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Cast
Wade Boteler
as Tugboat Captain
Tom Dugan
as Bum
Pat West
as Watchman
Brandon Tynan
as Tad
Oscar O'Shea
as Captain Walters
Olaf Hytten
as Dunham's Butler
Beryl Wallace
as Switchboard Operator
Solly Ward
as Minor Role
Joel McCrea
as Joe Meadows
Granville Bates
as Mr. Judd
Dorothea Kent
as Jean
John Sheehan
as Second Communist
George Offerman, Jr.
as Slim
Frank Sully
as Jim
Andrea Leeds
as Helen Brown
Isabel Jeans
as Mrs. Merrivale
Virginia Grey
as Madge
Arthur Housman
as First Communist
Eddie Acuff
as Bum
Henry Mollison
as Dunham
Willie Best
as George
Catherine Proctor
as Mrs. Aspitt
Chester Clute
as Salesman
Joyce Bryant
as Switchboard Operator
Edward Ryan
as Boy
Emmett Vogan
as Businessman
Frank Jenks
as Frank Munson
Grant Mitchell
as Duke
Edwin August
as Railroad Conductor
Edward Earle
as Businessman
Marjorie Kane
as Switchboard Operator
Helen Lynd
as Girl
Charles Sullivan
as Sailor
Marion Martin
as Girl on Beach