Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling
Directed by Archie Mayo
Written by Myles Connolly (writer)
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Cinematography Rudolph Maté
Edited by Philip Cahn
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • September 23, 1938
Running time
 77 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $676,000

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

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

Plot

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