Accent on Youth

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.

Cast

Sylvia Sidney

as Linda Brown

Herbert Marshall

as Steven Gaye

Phillip Reed

as Dickie Reynolds

Holmes Herbert

as Frank Galloway

Catherine Doucet

as Eleanor Darling

Astrid Allwyn

as Genevieve Lang

Ernest Cossart

as Flogdell

Lon Chaney Jr.

as Chuck

Dick Foran

as Butch

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