Young and Willing (1943)

Plot Summary

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Brown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)

Full Cast & Characters

William Holden

Norman Reese

Eddie Bracken

George Bodell

Susan Hayward

Kate Benson

Robert Benchley

Arthur Kenny

Martha O'Driscoll

Dottie Coburn

Barbara Britton

Marge Benson Dennison

Mabel Paige

Mrs. Garnet

Florence MacMichael

Muriel Foster

James Brown

Tony Dennison

Jay Fassett

J.T. Coburn

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