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You're Only Young Twice! (1952)

Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long-lost uncle Connell O’Grady (Joseph Tomelty), who was once a subversive Irish poet but is now working under an assumed name as a University porter. Ada is mistaken by Principal Archibald Asher (Patrick Barr) as his new secretary, and she goes along with the impersonation. Archibald and Ada fall in love, which incurs the disapproval of the puritanical Professor Hayman (Duncan Macrae).

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Top billed cast

Duncan MacraeProfessor "Haywire" Hayman
Joseph TomeltyConnell O'Grady aka Dan McEntee
Patrick BarrSir Archibald Asher
Charles HawtreyAdolphus Hayman
Diane HartAda Shore
Robert UrquhartSheltie
Edward LexyLord Carshennie
Jacqueline MackenzieNellie Kelly
Eric WoodburnThe Bedellus
Molly UrquhartLady Duffy

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