The Yearling (Original title)
Date: 1946 (Copyright)Country: USADirected 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
Title: The unadapted: Warner Bros. reads Zora Neale HurstonAuthor: BINGGELI, Elizabeth Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Examines Hollywood racial politics of the 1930s and 1940s through the reception of a major studio (Warner Bros.) to the work of African-American novelist Zora Neale Hurston and the unrealised adaptation of one of her novels.
In: Classic Images n171 September 1989 Page: 22
Title: [Classic Images - n171 September 1989: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Focus on Film n23 Winter 1975/76 Pages: Winter 34-35,40
Title: [Focus on Film - n23 Winter 1975/76: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v68 n5496 23 May 1947
Title: [Today's Cinema - v68 n5496 23 May 1947: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v165 n9 30 Nov 1946
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v165 n9 30 Nov 1946: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v13 n155 November 1946 Page: 84
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v13 n155 November 1946: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Film materials(1)
Description: 35mm Colour PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 11412 FeetStock date: 1947Stock date: 1946BFI identifier: C-198618
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Date: 1946 (Copyright)Country: USADirected 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
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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])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(6)
In: Cinema Journal v48 n3 Spring 2009 Pages: 1-15Title: The unadapted: Warner Bros. reads Zora Neale HurstonAuthor: BINGGELI, Elizabeth Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Examines Hollywood racial politics of the 1930s and 1940s through the reception of a major studio (Warner Bros.) to the work of African-American novelist Zora Neale Hurston and the unrealised adaptation of one of her novels.
In: Classic Images n171 September 1989 Page: 22
Title: [Classic Images - n171 September 1989: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Focus on Film n23 Winter 1975/76 Pages: Winter 34-35,40
Title: [Focus on Film - n23 Winter 1975/76: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v68 n5496 23 May 1947
Title: [Today's Cinema - v68 n5496 23 May 1947: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v165 n9 30 Nov 1946
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v165 n9 30 Nov 1946: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v13 n155 November 1946 Page: 84
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v13 n155 November 1946: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Film materials(1)
Description: 35mm Colour PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 11412 FeetStock date: 1947Stock date: 1946BFI identifier: C-198618
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)