You're Never Too Young (1955)

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You're Never Too Young is a slapstick-with-songs remake of the 1944 Ray Milland/Ginger Rogers vehicle The Major and the Minor. Dean Martin plays the Milland part, while Ginger's shoes are filled by...Jerry Lewis? Lewis plays an apprentice barber who inadvertently crosses a homicidal jewel thief… More You're Never Too Young is a slapstick-with-songs remake of the 1944 Ray Milland/Ginger Rogers vehicle The Major and the Minor. Dean Martin plays the Milland part, while Ginger's shoes are filled by...Jerry Lewis? Lewis plays an apprentice barber who inadvertently crosses a homicidal jewel thief (Raymond Burr), and equally inadvertently hightails it out of town with the crook's jewels in his possession. Desperate to escape the crook's clutches, and lacking the necessary funds for a train ticket, Lewis disguises himself as a 12-year-old boy so he can travel half fare. He latches onto Dean, a music teacher heading for an all-girls school. After innumerable routines sparked by Lewis's adolescent disguise, the jewel thief catches up with him, leading to a rollicking climactic speedboat chase. Dean Martin has plenty of opportunities to serenade leading lady Diana Lynn (who'd played a supporting role in The Major and the Minor), while Jerry Lewis is in peak form doing his usual "waah-waah-waah" schtick. The original Billy Wilder/Charles Brackett script for The Major and the Minor was reshaped into You're Never Too Young by future bestselling novelist Sidney Sheldon. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By: Frank Tashlin, Norman Taurog
Genres: Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Aug 25, 1955 Wide
On DVD: Jun 5, 2007

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Cast

            Dean Martin as Bob Miles

            Jerry Lewis as Wilbur Hoolick

            Diana Lynn as Nancy Collins

            Nina Foch as Gretchen Brendan

            Raymond Burr as Noonan

            Mitzi McCall as Skeets

            Veda Ann Borg as Mrs. Noonan

            Margery Maude as Mrs. Ella Brendan

            Romo Vincent as Ticket agent

            Nancy Kulp as Marty's mother

            Milton Frome as Lt. O'Malley

            Emory Parnell as Conductor

            James Burke as Pullman conductor

            Tommy Ivo as Marty

            Whitey Haupt as Mike Brendan

            Mickey Finn as Sgt. Brown

            Peggy Moffitt as Agnes

            Johnstone White as 1st Professor

            Dick Simmons as Professor

            Louise Lorimer as Teacher

            Isabel Randolph as Teacher

            Robert Carson as Tailor

            Hans Conried as Francois

            Bobby Barber as Newsboy

            Stanley Blystone as Passenger

            Richard H. Cutting as Hotel Guard

            Donna Jo Gribble as School girl

            Bob Morgan as Texan

            Gloria Moore as Schoolgirl
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