You're Never Too Young (1955)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Norman Taurog

Writers:

Fanny Kilbourne (play) and
Edward Childs Carpenter (play) ...
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Release Date:

25 August 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Dino's the singing dean of a girl's school, Jerry - a wolf in kid's clothing - in a class by himself with 503 coeds.

Plot:

When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.

Plot Keywords:

Barber | Diamond | Cigar | Draft Deferment | Grab Ass

Cast

Dean Martin	...	Bob Miles
Jerry Lewis	...	Wilbur Hoolick
Diana Lynn	...	Nancy Collins
Nina Foch	...	Gretchen Brendan
Raymond Burr	...	Noonan
Mitzi McCall	...	Skeets Powell
Veda Ann Borg	...	Mrs. Noonan
Margery Maude	...	Mrs. Ella Brennan
Romo Vincent	...	Ticket agent
Nancy Kulp	...	Marty's mother
Milton Frome	...	Lieutenant O'Malley
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tor Johnson	...	(unconfirmed)
Peter Adams	...	Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Heather Ames	...	Girl In Lobby (uncredited)
Bobby Barber	...	Union Station newsstand clerk (uncredited)
James Burke	...	Pullman conductor (uncredited)
Robert Carson	...	Tailor (uncredited)
Hans Conried	...	François (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting	...	Hotel Guard (uncredited)
Elaine DuPont	...	(uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum	...	Man in Ticket Line (uncredited)
Mickey Finn	...	Sergeant Brown (uncredited)
Bess Flowers	...	Lobby Extra (uncredited)
Donna Jo Gribble	...	School girl (uncredited)
Whitey Haupt	...	Mike Brendan (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo	...	Marty (uncredited)
Louise Lorimer	...	Teacher (uncredited)
Peggy Moffitt	...	Agnes (uncredited)
Gloria Penny Moore	...	School girl (uncredited)
Bob Morgan	...	Texan (uncredited)
Paul Newlan	...	Husky Man at Train Station (uncredited)
Marty Newton	...	Faculty Member (uncredited)
Emory Parnell	...	Train Conductor (uncredited)
Donna Percy	...	Girl (uncredited)
Isabel Randolph	...	Teacher (uncredited)
Dick Simmons	...	Professor (uncredited)
Irene Walpole	...	School girl (uncredited)
Johnstone White	...	Professor (uncredited)

Directed by
Norman Taurog

Writing credits
Fanny Kilbourne		(play) and
Edward Childs Carpenter		(play)
Sidney Sheldon		(writer)

Produced by
Paul Jones	....	producer

Cinematography by
Daniel L. Fapp

Film Editing by
Archie Marshek

Art Direction by
A. Earl Hedrick		(as Earl Hedrick)
Hal Pereira

Set Decoration by
Sam Comer
Frank R. McKelvy		(as Frank McKelvy)

Costume Design by
Edith Head

Makeup Department
Wally Westmore	....	makeup supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael D. Moore	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Gene Garvin	....	sound recordist
Gene Merritt	....	sound recordist
Carl Mahakian	....	sound editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
John P. Fulton	....	special photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Farciot Edouart	....	process photographer

Editorial Department
Richard Mueller	....	color consultant: Technicolor

Music Department
Norman Luboff	....	music arranger: vocal arrangements
Walter Scharf	....	conductor
Walter Scharf	....	music arranger

Other crew
Nick Castle	....	choreographer
Jack Mintz	....	assistant to producer

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1955) (USA) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (1964) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1966) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Paramount Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-8 | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Quotes:

Mrs. Ella Brennan: [as Noonan, masquerading as Wilbur's father, takes his "son" out of school] Take good care of him.
Noonan: [With irony] Oh, he'll be taken care of.
Wilbur Hoolick: [after Noonan starts to strangle him] I don't want to go.
Mrs. Ella Brennan: Why, Wilbur?
Noonan: Yes, tell her why.
Wilbur Hoolick: Well, because, you see, I'm not really a little...
Wilbur Hoolick: [He realizes he cannoot reveal the truth] I like it hee. I want to go to school here.
Mrs. Ella Brennan: This is a girls' school!
Wilbur Hoolick: That's why I like it here.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978)

Soundtrack:

Relax-Ay-Voo

Pinnacle of their Partnership.

Considered the best of the Martin and Lewis comedies, this remake of "The Major and The Minor" (with Lewis in the Ginger Rogers role as an adult disguised as a child to qualify for a half-fare train ticket) improves on the original with a never ending romp of slap-stick humor, musical comedy numbers, and color. Diana Lynn, who plays a teacher, played the teenage roommate to Ginger Rogers in the original. Diana Lynn also starred in Martin and Lewis' debut films "My Friend Irma" and "My Friend Irma Goes To New York." Lewis as a boy is never really believable, but that's okay, it's meant as a spoof of anyone who has tried to pass off an older child as younger for half fare tickets. Most important, the humor is very, very fast and funny. Despite some nice musical moments between Dean and Jerry, there is no mistaking this is Jerry's tour-de-farce, and the reason for their split up obvious. Enjoy the pinnacle of their partnership.