Young and Willing

Young and Willing (1943)

Three Stage-Struck Girls...Three Love-Struck Boys...In a Three Room Greenwich Village Madhouse!

A group of young stage hopefuls tries to persuade a theatrical producer to give them their big chance at stardom.

Date of release
1943-02-05
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Drama
Director
Edward H. Griffith

Casting

Interesting facts

Young and Willing is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley, and Susan Hayward. With a screenplay by Virginia Van Upp based on the play Out of the Frying Pan by Francis Swann, the film is about young, aspiring actors—three men and three women—who combine their resources and move into the same apartment, hoping to keep the landlady in the dark until they can become famous. Young and Willing was made by Paramount Pictures and distributed by United Artists.

Production

The play on which the film is based opened at the Windsor Theatre, New York City, on February 11, 1941, with Alfred Drake, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Mabel Paige in the cast.

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