Youth Takes a Fling is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Joel McCrea.

Youth Takes a Fling
Directed byArchie Mayo
Written byMyles Connolly (writer)
Produced byJoe Pasternak
CinematographyRudolph Maté
Edited byPhilip Cahn
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • September 23, 1938 (1938-09-23)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$676,000[1]

One of Leeds relatively few films, both she and McCrea were loaned to Universal from Samuel Goldwyn.

Plot

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Press of Kentucky. p. 116. ISBN 9780813158891.
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