The Yearling (film)
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Theatrical release poster designed by Douglass Crockwell (November 1946)
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| Directed by | Clarence Brown |
| Produced by | Sidney Franklin |
| Screenplay by | Paul Osborn |
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The Yearling 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| Starring |
Gregory Peck Jane Wyman Claude Jarman, Jr. |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart arrangement of Frederick Delius's music |
| Cinematography |
Arthur E. Arling Charles Rosher Leonard Smith |
| Edited by | Harold F. Kress |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,883,000 |
| Box office | $7,599,000 |
The Yearling (1946) is a Technicolor family film drama directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a young boy who adopts a trouble-making young deer. The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) was adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's novel of the same name. The film stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr., Chill Wills, and Forrest Tucker.
The story was remade in the 1994 TV film The Yearling starring Peter Strauss and Jean Smart.
Ezra "Penny" Baxter (Gregory Peck), once a Confederate soldier, and his wife Ora (Jane Wyman), are pioneer farmers near Lake George, Florida in 1878. Their son, Jody (Claude Jarman, Jr.), a boy in his pre-teen years, is their only surviving child. Jody has a wonderful relationship with his warm and loving father. Ora, however, is still haunted by the deaths of the three other children of the family. She is very somber, and is afraid that Jody will end up dying if she shows her parental love to him. Jody finds her somewhat unloving and unreasonable.
With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody longs for a pet to play with and care for. Penny is sympathetic and understanding, but Ora is disgusted. One day, when a rattlesnake bites Penny, they kill a doe and use its organs to draw out the poison. Jody asks to adopt the doe's orphaned fawn. Penny permits it, but warns Jody that the fawn will have to be set free when it grows up.
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