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Former child actor Dean Stockwell makes his first grown-up appearance in The Careless Years. Stockwell plays a mixed-up high schooler who wishes to marry Natalie Trundy, but the girl's parents (played by John Stephenson and Barbara "June Cleaver" Billingsley) feel the couple should complete school first. Dean and Natalie impulsively run off to elope, while Natalie's anguished parents inaugurate a nationwide search for the wayward kids. Though it is fairly clear that Dean and Natalie have gotten to know each other intimately during their flight, they meekly return home and agree to "wait" until school is out. Careless Years served to introduce promising young actress Natalie Trundy, whose starring career was cut short by an auto accident that kept her off-screen until the late 1960s.
Original Release
09/02/1957
US Release
09/02/1957
Cast
Name | Character |
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Dean Stockwell | Jerry Vernon |
Natalie Trundy | Emily 'Miley' Meredith / Emily Meredith |
John Larch | Sam Vernon |
Barbara Billingsley | Helen Meredith |
John Stephenson | Charles Meredith |
Maureen Cassidy | Harriet |
Mason Alan Dinehart | Bob Williams (as Alan Dinehart III) / Bob Williams |
Virginia Christine | Mrs. Vernon / Mathilda Vernon |
Gail Bonney | Saleslady |
Claire Carleton | Aunt Martha |
Directors
Writers
John Howard Lawson, Mitch Lindemann
Cast
Name | Character |
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Dean Stockwell | Jerry Vernon |
Natalie Trundy | Emily 'Miley' Meredith / Emily Meredith |
John Larch | Sam Vernon |
Barbara Billingsley | Helen Meredith |
John Stephenson | Charles Meredith |
Maureen Cassidy | Harriet |
Mason Alan Dinehart | Bob Williams (as Alan Dinehart III) / Bob Williams |
Virginia Christine | Mrs. Vernon / Mathilda Vernon |
Gail Bonney | Saleslady |
Claire Carleton | Aunt Martha |
Jack Daly | Mr. Gordon |
Donna Jo Gribble | Student |
Robert Hyatt | Biff Vernon (as Bobby Hyatt) / Biff Vernon |
Norman Ollestad | Student |
Stephen Roberts | High School Science Teacher |
Hugh Sanders | Uncle Harry |
Elizabeth Slifer | Mrs. Belosi |
Isabel Withers | High School History Teacher |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kirk Douglas | Executive Producer |
Edward Lewis | Producer |