Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
The story of two juvenile delinquents.
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
- Date of release
- 1979-07-13
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Leonard B. Stern
Casting
- Brooke Shields — Kate
- George Burns — Bill
- Burl Ives — Max
- Ray Bolger — Tom
- Lorraine Gary — Shirl
- Christopher Knight — Roy
- Carl Ballantine — Reinhoff the Remarkable
- Keye Luke — Doctor Device
- Robert Doran — Box Boy
- John Schuck — Stan
- Leon Ames — Manduke the Magnificent
- Andrea Howard — Sue
Interesting facts
Just You and Me, Kid is a 1979 American comedy film starring George Burns, Brooke Shields, Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger, Leon Ames, Carl Ballantine, Keye Luke and Burl Ives. It was directed by Leonard B. Stern and was released in July 1979 by Columbia Pictures.
Production
Brooke Shields received a fee of $250,000 plus six percent of the profits. Alternate titles for the picture were One Night Stand, Two of a Kind and Uncle Bill & The Queen of Hollywood. The original casting for the role of Max played by Burl Ives was Orson Welles (a practicing stage magician in real-life), but he dropped out of the picture. James Stewart was considered for the part.
Just You and Me, Kid premiered on 5 July 1979 at the Resorts International Superstar Theatre in Atlantic City, as a charity performance benefiting the Atlantic City Hospital fund.
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