The Youngest Profession

The Youngest Profession

82 mins | Comedy, Romance | Feb. 26, 1943

Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.

The Youngest Profession

82 mins | Comedy, Romance | Feb. 26, 1943

The Youngest Profession
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title The Youngest Profession
Directors Edward Buzzell
Writers Lillian Day, Leonard Spigelgass, George Oppenheimer, Charles Lederer

Cast

Virginia Weidler

as Joan Lyons

Edward Arnold

as Burton V. Lyons

John Carroll

as John Carroll

Ann Ayars

as Susan Thayer

Marta Linden

as Edith Lyons

Dick Simmons

as Douglas Sutton

Agnes Moorehead

as Miss Featherstone

Jean Porter

as Patricia Drew

Raymond Roe

as Schuyler

Dorothy Morris

as Secretary

Scotty Beckett

as Junior Lyons

Marcia Mae Jones

as Vera Bailey

Sara Haden

as Sister Lassie

Beverly Tyler

as Thyra Winter

Marjorie Gateson

as Mrs. Drew

Thurston Hall

as Mr. Drew

Jessica Grayson

as Lilybud

Lana Turner

as Herself - Guest Star

Greer Garson

as Herself - Guest Star

Walter Pidgeon

as Himself - Guest Star

Robert Taylor

as Himself - Guest Star

William Powell

as Himself - Guest Star