Wednesday 23 August 2017

The Young In Heart (1938 Richard Wallace)

Source is IAR Wylie novella 'The Gay Banditti', adapted by Paul Osborn and Hitch's Charles Bennett. Con family soften and grow up through association with nice old lady.


Not particularly a fan of Janet Gaynor or Douglas Fairbanks Jr., though no problem at all with Roland Young and Billie Burke. Minnie Dupree is Miss Fortune, Paulette Godard is the engineering lady and Richard Carlson the 'Scot', with Henry Stephenson the family lawyer.

Nice sets (train crash, Wombat showroom, nightclub, old lady's house) - production design William Cameron Menzies, art direction Lyle Wheeler.


Shot by Leon Shamroy and music by Frederick Hollander. Although Selznick produced it he seems not to have been that hands-on - there isn't one of his famous missives published in the book 'Memo from..' - too busy on GWTW.

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