Cast
- Bonita Granville as Toddy
- Kent Smith as Danny Coates
- Jean Brooks as Mary Hauser Coates
- Glen Vernon as Frank Hauser
- Vanessa Brown as Sarah Taylor
- Ben Bard as Mr. Taylor
- Mary Servoss as Mrs. Cora Hauser
- Lawrence Tierney as Larry Duncan
- Johnny Walsh as Herb Vigero
- Rod Rodgers as Rocky
- Elizabeth Russell as Mrs. Mabel Taylor
- Cast notes
- Vanessa Brown made her film debut in Youth Runs Wild under the name "Tessa Brind". Born "Smylla Brind", she had appeared on Broadway in The Seven Year Itch playing the part opposite Tom Ewell that Marilyn Monroe would later play in the film. Brown had also appeared on the radio game show Quiz Kids.
- Elizabeth Russell, the sister-in-law of Rosalind Russell, was a regular in films produced by Val Lewton, having appeared in Cat People (1942), its sequel The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and The Seventh Victim (1943). She would also appear later in Lewton's Bedlam (1946).
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