Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss
A film poster featuring painted depictions of Allyson preparing to kiss Johnson with a greyscale Allyson (dressed as a child) in the lower-left corner; stylized lipsticked lips in the lower third of the poster have the film's title—Too Young to Kiss—written upon them.
Directed byRobert Z. Leonard
Screenplay by
Story byEverett Freeman
Produced bySam Zimbalist
Starring
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg
Edited byConrad A. Nervig
Music byJohnny Green
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • November 22, 1951 (1951-11-22)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$1.4 million
Box office$2.3 million

Too Young to Kiss (also All Too Young)[1] is a 1951 American[2] comedy film[3] from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Van Johnson and June Allyson. The film, in which the 34-year-old Allyson's Cynthia Potter masquerades as a 14-year-old child prodigy, was directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

The monaural, black-and-white film[1] clocks in at 91 minutes long.[4] In theatres, Too Young to Kiss earned 164% of its budget, and received mixed critical reviews.

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