As Young as You Feel
A THOUSAND CHEERS FOR THE NATION'S HAPPY-AS-A-LARK FAMILY!
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
- 6.3
- 1951
- Released
- 1h 17m
Monty Woolley
John R. Hodges
Thelma Ritter
Della Hodges
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
Harold P. Cleveland
Wally Brown
Horace Gallagher
Russ Tamblyn
Willie McKinley
Released
en
- #speech
- #secretary
- #impostor
- #assumed identity
- #forced retirement
Reviews
Print worker "Hodges" (Monty Woolley) isn't best impressed when he is made redundant at the age of 65. The thought of sitting in the park playing dominoes with his contemporaries scares him rigid, so he concocts quite a clever plan to impersonate the boss of their parent company and get this arbitrary policy reversed. Luckily for him, nobody actually knows who the the real company president is, le
I really enjoyed this fine screwball comedy, from a very clever story by Paddy Chayefsky, about a man forced to retire from a beloved printing job because he turned 65. He decides to go straight to the president to question the ageist policy, discovers no one knows what the president looks like, decides to impersonate him, and hilarity ensues. Wonderful roles for Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, Cons