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The Yearling (Original title)
Date: 1946 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Production company billing: ©1946. Loew's Incorporated Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents produced by Loew's Incorporated a Clarence Brown production MPAA: 11549 [tbc] [1.37:1]
Synopsis: The young son of poor farmers makes friends with a fawn, but loses it when it grows and eats the corn and has to be shot. The boy's childhood is over.

Genre:
Drama
Releases
Date: November 1946Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 127 mins Length: 11458 FeetLanguage: English
Date: May 1947Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 128 mins Language: English

Credits (44)
©: Loew's Incorporated, Produced by: Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a Clarence Brown production: Clarence Brown, Produced by: Sidney Franklin, [Unit Production Manager]: Jay Marchant, Second Unit Directed by: Chester M. Franklin, [1941 Footage Director]: Victor Fleming, [Assistant Director]: Alfred Raboch, Joe Boyle, [1941 Footage Assistant Director]: Richard Rosson, [Assistant to Clarence Brown]: Ralph Steiner, Screen Play by: Paul Osborn, Based on Pulitzer Prize novel by: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Director of Photography: Charles Rosher, Director of Photography: Leonard Smith, Director of Photography: Arthur Arling, [1941 Footage Director of Photography]: Harold Rosson, [1942 Screen Tests Dir of Photography]: Paul C. Vogel, Technicolor Colour Director: Natalie Kalmus, Associate [Technicolor Colour Director]: Henri Jaffa, [Camera Operator]: Robert Gough, Harry Marble, [Camera Technician]: George Dye, Roger Mace, [Camera Assistant]: Al Bayliss, Special Effects: Warren Newcombe, Film Editor: Harold F. Kress, Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Costume Supervision: Irene, Costumes by: Vallès, Make-up Created by: Jack Dawn, Photographed in: Technicolor, Musical Score by: Herbert Stothart, [Musical Score] Utilizing Themes from: Frederick Delius, Music Performed by: Metro-goldwyn-mayer Symphony Orchestra, Conducting the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Symphony Orchestra: Herbert Stothart, Recording Director: Douglas Shearer, Sound System: Western Electric, [Technical Adviser]: Mel Long, Studio: MGM Studios (Culver City)
Cast (22)
Gregory Peck (Penny Baxter), Jane Wyman (Ory Baxter), Claude Jarman Jr (Jody Baxter), Chill Wills (Buck Forrester), Clem Bevans (Pa Forrester), Margaret Wycherly (Ma Forrester), Henry Travers (Mr Boyles), Forrest Tucker (Lem Forrester), Donn Gift (Fodderwing), Matt Willis ([Gabby Forrester]), Dan White ([Millwheel Forrester]), George K. Mann ([Pack Forrester]), Arthur Hohl ([Arch Forrester]), Joan Wells ([Eulalie Boyles]), Jeff York ([Oliver]), June Lockhart ([Twink Weatherby]), B.M. "Chick" York ([Doc Wilson]), Houseley Stevenson ([Mr Ranger]), Jane Green ([Mrs Saunders]), Victor Kilian ([ship captain]), Robert Porterfield ([mate]), Frank Eldredge ([deckhand])