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Young Man's Fancy is a British film of genre Romantic comedy directed by Robert Stevenson released in USA on 3 december 1943 with Anna Lee
Young Man's Fancy (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 3 december 1943
Length 1h17
Directed by Robert Stevenson
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Romantic comedy
Themes Political films
Rating59%
Young Man's Fancy is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Anna Lee and Griffith Jones and Seymour Hicks. An aristocratic Englishman is unhappily engaged to a brewery heiress but meets an Irish human cannonball during a visit to a music hall and falls in love with her. Together they are trapped in Paris during the Siege of Paris It was written by Roland Pertwee and Stevenson, with additional dialogue by Rodney Ackland and E.V.H. Emmett.
Actors
Anna Lee
(Ada)
Griffith Jones
(Lord Alban)
Seymour Hicks
(Duke of Beaumont)
Martita Hunt
(Duchess of Beaumont)
Edward Rigby
(Gray)
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