A Very Young Lady

1941 film by Harold D. Schuster

June 27, 1941 (1941-06-27)

Running time

80 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

A Very Young Lady is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring Jane Withers and Nancy Kelly.^[1] It was produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. It was based on the play Matura by Ladislas Fodor which had previously been adapted by the studio into the 1936 film Girls' Dormitory.^[2]

Synopsis

Kitty Russell is sent to a finishing school to tame her manners. While there she develops a crush on the headteacher Doctor Franklin Meredith, who is also the target of admiration from one of the female teachers.

Cast

Jane Withers as Kitty Russell
Nancy Kelly as Alice Carter
John Sutton as Dr. Franklin Meredith
Janet Beecher as Miss Steele
Richard Clayton as Tom Brighton
June Carlson as Madge
Charles Halton as Oliver Brixton
Cecil Kellaway as Professor Starkweather
Marilyn Kinsley as Susie
JoAnn Ransom as Linda
Catherine Henderson as Jean
Lucita Ham as Sarah
June Horne as Beth
Eddie Acuff as Sheriff Bill Stone
Dorothy Moore as Miss Clayton
William Edmunds as Abner
Henry Roquemore as Stationmaster

References

^ "A Very Young Lady (1941)". BFI. Archived from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
^ Goble p.161

Bibliography

Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.