The Yearling (1946 film)

The Yearling
Theatrical release poster designed by Douglass Crockwell (November 1946)
Directed byClarence Brown
Screenplay byPaul Osborn
Based onThe Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Produced bySidney Franklin
StarringGregory Peck
Jane Wyman
Claude Jarman Jr.
CinematographyArthur Arling
Charles Rosher
Leonard Smith
Edited byHarold F. Kress
Music byHerbert Stothart arrangement of Frederick Delius's music
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • December 18, 1946 (1946-12-18)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,883,000[1][2]
Box office$7,599,000[3]
On set, L-R: Leonard Smith, unknown & Clarence Brown

The Yearling is a 1946 American Family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) was adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's 1938 novel of the same name. The film stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker.

The story follows a boy named Jodie, who adopts a trouble-making young deer. The story was later adapted as the 1994 TV film The Yearling starring Peter Strauss and Jean Smart.[4]

  1. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Scott Eyman, Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer, Robson, 2005 p 375
  3. ^ H. Mark Glancy, 'MGM Film Grosses, 1924–28: The Eddie Mannix Ledger', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 12 No. 2 1992 p127-144 at p140
  4. ^ The Yearling at IMDb