As Young as You Feel

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.

Cast

Monty Woolley

as John R. Hodges

Thelma Ritter

as Della Hodges

David Wayne

as Joe Elliott

Jean Peters

as Alice Hodges

Constance Bennett

as Lucille McKinley

Marilyn Monroe

as Harriet

Allyn Joslyn

as George Hodges

Albert Dekker

as Louis McKinley

Clinton Sundberg

as Frank Erickson

Minor Watson

as Harold P. Cleveland

Reviews

talisencrw

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, dec...

CinemaSerf

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 arbitra...

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