Young Ideas

Young IdeasAcademy Award winner* Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon) stars as a widow whose grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor in this charming, offbeat comedy directed by the legendary Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday, Naked City, Rififi). When Susan (Susan Peters) and Jeff Evans (Elliot Reid), the adult children of widowed author and lecturer Jo Evans (Astor), discover that their mother has fallen in love with staid professor Michael

Yet any wolf-whistling saddle bum who tries to strike up too cozy a friendship with Jackie may have a sudden appointment with Eddie's fists

She leaves him and

Filmed on location in several fabled Las Vegas and Los Angeles night spots

Screenwriter Herman J

TV 's "The Wayans Bros

And Sir Michael Redgrave stings as the smug school governor with his own motives for using Colin's running prowess

perhaps the most memorable of several film adaptations of Franz Lehar's operetta

"Feet" goes on a gambling spree and ends up winning a fortune

But an event that Macon did not plan and cannot control occurs: He breaks his leg

any chance to see Rooney and Bartholomew together remains one of the great joys of Golden Era movies (it's the last of five features pairing them)

As father and son circle each other

Groucho and Chico work a badge skit