Dangerous Years

(1947)

62 minutes

Drama

Directed by Arthur Pierson

Cast:

Billy Halop as Danny Jones
Scotty Beckett as Willy Miller 
Richard Gaines as Edgar Burns 
Ann E. Todd as Doris Martin 
Jerome Cowan as Weston 
Anabel Shaw as Connie Burns 
Darryl Hickman as Leo Emerson 
Dickie Moore as Gene Spooner 
Harry Harvey Jr. as Phil Kenny 
Gil Stratton as Tammy McDonald  
Harry Shannon as Judge Raymond 
Donald Curtis as Jeff Carter 
Joseph Vitale as August Miller 
Marilyn Monroe as Evie 
Nana Bryant as Miss Templeton 

The film is about Jeff Carter who starts a boy’s club to put an end to the bad behavior going around in town. Danny, a young delinquent, arrives and becomes a bad influence on Willy, Doris, and Leo. They all begin to spend more time together and when Jeff attempts to stop Danny’s plans on a robbery, he is killed. Danny is sent to trial for his actions.

This was one of Marilyn Monroe’s earliest movie parts.