| The Yearling | |
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| Directed by | Clarence Brown |
| Screenplay by | Paul Osborn |
| Based on | The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| Produced by | Sidney Franklin |
| Starring | Gregory Peck Jane Wyman Claude Jarman Jr. |
| Cinematography | Arthur Arling Charles Rosher Leonard Smith |
| Edited by | Harold F. Kress |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart arrangement of Frederick Delius's music |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,883,000[1][2] |
| Box office | $7,599,000[3] |
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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]
- ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ Scott Eyman, Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer, Robson, 2005 p 375
- ^ 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
- ^ The Yearling at IMDb