Youth Takes a Fling

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

 * Joel McCrea as Joe Meadows
 * Andrea Leeds as Helen Brown
 * Frank Jenks as Frank Munson
 * Dorothea Kent as Jean
 * Isabel Jeans as Mrs. Merrivale
 * Virginia Grey as Madge
 * Grant Mitchell as Duke
 * Henry Mollison as Dunham
 * Brandon Tynan as Tad
 * Oscar O'Shea as Captain Walters
 * Granville Bates as Mr. Judd
 * Roger Davis as Floorwalker
 * Marion Martin as Girl on Beach
 * Olaf Hytten as Dunham's Butler
 * Willie Best as George
 * Catherine Proctor as Mrs. Aspitt
 * Yvonne Boisseau as Miss Beaton
 * Arthur Housman as First Communist
 * John Sheehan as Second Communist
 * Chester Clute as Salesman
 * Wade Boteler as Tugboat Captain
 * Tom Dugan as Bum
 * Eddie Acuff as Bum
 * Mary Field as Maid