From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Yearling from 1946 and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer from 1947.
The Yearling is a 1946 family film drama directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released in Technicolor 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 is about a young boy 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.
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 and Claude Jarman Jr.
Cinematography: Arthur Arling., Charles Rosher and Leonard Smith.
Edited by: Harold F. Kress.
Music by: Herbert Stothart arrangement of, Frederick Delius's music.
Colour process: Technicolor
Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Distributed by: Loew's, Inc.
Release date: 18 December , 1946.
File length: 128 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $3,883,000.
Box office: $7,599,000.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (released as Bachelor Knight in the United Kingdom is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Irving Reis and written by Sidney Sheldon.
The film stars Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple in a story about a teenager's crush on an older man.
Upon its release, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer was well received by both audiences and critics.
Sidney Sheldon won an Oscar for his screenplay.
Directed by: Irving Reis.
Screenplay by: Sidney Sheldon.
Produced by: Dore Schary.
Starring: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple.
Cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca and Robert De Grasse.
Edited by: Frederic Knudtson.
Music by: Leigh Harline.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release date: 24 July , 1947 (Premiere- NYC) and 1 September , 1947 (USA).
File length: 95 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Box office: $4.5 million (US/Canada rentals) or $5,550,000.
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