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Director:
Edward Buzzell
Writers:
Lillian Day (book)
George Oppenheimer (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
15 May 1944 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Virginia Weidler ... Joan Lyons
Edward Arnold ... Burton V. Lyons
John Carroll ... Dr. Hercules
Anne Ayars ... Susan Thayer
Marta Linden ... Edith Lyons
Dick Simmons ... Douglas Sutton

Agnes Moorehead ... Miss Featherstone
Jean Porter ... Patricia Drew
Raymond Roe ... Schuyler
Dorothy Morris ... Lana Turner's Secretary
Scotty Beckett ... Junior Lyons
Marcia Mae Jones ... Vera Bailey
Sara Haden ... Sister Lassie
Beverly Tyler ... Thyra Winters (as Beverly Jean Saul)
Marjorie Gateson ... Mrs. Drew
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Runtime:
82 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #9065) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

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Movie Connections:
Features Crossroads (1942) more
Soundtrack:
(I Like New York in Spring) How About You? more

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Bagging Those Autographs, 29 September 2009
5/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Five of MGM's biggest stars did some box office cameo duty appearing as themselves in this B picture about the trials and travails of autograph pursuing. I do remember pursuing a few of them in my youth so I can somewhat sympathize with what these young girls headed by Virginia Weidler are going through. I can also understand some of the problems they cause the celebrities as well.

The landings in North Africa and Salerno should have been as well organized as what Virginia Weidler and her fan club when they're on the prowl for celebrity signatures. Weidler and her pursuits are bedeviling her parents, Edward Arnold and Marta Linden, and they've got additional problems with their son Scotty Beckett who fancies himself an inventor and a governess in Agnes Moorehead who's outlived her usefulness and won't take the hint to retire.

Weidler's imagination is set on fire by what she sees in the movies and already she's imagining trouble in her parent's marriage and switches from movie star hunting to Lucy Ricardo like machinations to keep her parents from a breakup that's all in her head.

Lana Turner, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, and William Powell all make brief appearances as the hunted. Personally there's no way in God's green earth that Greer Garson would have indulged Weidler and her friend Ann Ayars. Only Pidgeon showed the slightest traces of impatience with the young ladies, maybe more than a trace.

The Youngest Profession is a cute film, a nostalgic look at the Forties, but not too much more than that.

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