My Journey ends here...
As young as you feel (1951)
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Despite a minor role as a secretary, Marilyn appeared on the top of the poster, for the movie to get the advantage of her growing success.
But her hopes were down, because Johnny Hyde had just died.
During this shooting, she met Elia Kazan who introduced her to Arthur Miller.
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CREDITS
Twentieth Century-Fox, black and white.
Runtime : 77 mn.
Release date : August 2nd 1951.
Director : Harmon Jones.
Filmmaker : Lamar Trotti.
Screenplay : Lamar Trotti, from an originale story of Paddy Chayefsky.
Photography operator : Joseph MacDonald.
Music : Cyril J.Mockridge.
Film editing : Robert E.Simpson.
CAST :
Monty Wooley - John Hodges
Thelma Ritter - Della Hughes
David Wayne - Joe Elliott
Jean Peters - Alice Hodges
Constance Bennett - Lucille McKinley
Marilyn Monroe - Harriet
Allyn Joslyn - George Hodges
Albert Dekker - Louis McKinley
Clinton Sundberg - Frank Erickson
Minor Watson - Cleveland
Ludwig Stössel - Serge Toulevitsk
Wallace Brown - Gallagher
Russ Tamblyn - Willie
Don Beddoe - Head of Sales
Helen Brown - Clancy
Paul E.Burns - Printer Co-Worker
Charles Cane - Rogell
Harry Cheshire - President, Chamber of Commerce
David Clarke - Cleveland's Chauffeur
Dick Cogan - Benson
Charles J.Conrad - Information Clerk
Robert Dudley - Old Man on Park Bench
Raymond Greenleaf - Vice president
James Griffith - Cashier
Billy Lechner - Mailboy
Harry McKim - Page boy
Roger Moore - Saltensall
Renie Riano - Harpist
Carol Savage - Librarian
Harry Shannon - Kleinbaum
Gerald Oliver Smith - McKinleys' butler
Houseley Stevenson - Old Man on Park Bench
Emerson Tracy - Public relations head
Ann Tyrrell - Cleveland's secretary
Frank Wilcox - Cleveland's Lawyer.
TECHNICAL CREW
Maurice Ransford - art director
Lyle R.Wheeler - art director
Thomas Little - set designer
Bruce Mac Donald - set designer
Renié - costumes
Ben Nye - make-up
W.D.Flick - sound
Roger Herman Sr - sound
Maurice De Packh - orchestration
Charles LeMaire - costumes director
Lionel Newman - music director
Fred Sersen - special effects.
SYNOPSIS
A morale story, which lesson is that years don't spil the abilities.
Aged 65, John Hodges ( Monty Woolley) has to leave his job at the Acme Printing Services because of a plan of forced retirement imposed by an affiliated company, the Consolidated Motors.
With the advice of his daughter's fiancé, Joe Elliott (David Wayne) who also works in the same company, he writes a letter to the President, a very lonely man named Cleveland.
They all have a plan : Hodges usurps the President identity and orders a non -expected visit at Acme, which caused a complete panic to his manager, Louis McKinley, that even his gorgeous secretary Harriet (Marilyn in her first part for her second contract with the Fox) doesn't manage to calm down.
Hosges's plan works almost too well - he makes a new policy where the retirees can keep their job as long as they want to. But Lucille (Constance Bennett), the wife of his former manager, falls in love with him. Then the plan is revealed : after Hodges's speech, the company stocks increase, he is confounded and treated as a faker.
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real Cleveland (Minor Watson) and Lucille go and meet him at his home.
McKinley claims for his wife and for this occasion, reprimands
Cleveland (who he hasn't met before). McKinley faints when his wife
tells him the dreadful mistake he just has made. Cleveland offers
Hodges a very important place in the other company, but Hodges only
wants to have his former job back. Then all is well that ends
well.
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