It''s Saturday again, which in my home is housework day, including ironing. Now ironing is not something that I love, especially with the weather is as warm as it is here, but now that I watch an old movie while I iron, the time goes much faster.
Todays movie (kindly aired by GEM) is 'The Yearling', a 1946 Technicolor family film by MGM which features a fawn - Bambi like - who is adopted by a young boy. But the movie is so much more than that.
The boy, Jody, is played by ten year old Claude Jarman, Jr., and his parents are played by the wonderful Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. The fawn is orphaned when it's mother is killed in order to use its insides to save Peck from a snake bite. Despite being extremely poor, the parents agree to Jody looking after the fawn until it's old enough to go back to the wild. Of course Jody and the fawn become so attached that this proves difficult, even though the grown deer is a huge nuisance, eating crops and trashing the farm.
The film was based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel of the same name written in 1938. It was initially published as an adult novel, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, staying top of the bestseller
Todays movie (kindly aired by GEM) is 'The Yearling', a 1946 Technicolor family film by MGM which features a fawn - Bambi like - who is adopted by a young boy. But the movie is so much more than that.
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The boy, Jody, is played by ten year old Claude Jarman, Jr., and his parents are played by the wonderful Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. The fawn is orphaned when it's mother is killed in order to use its insides to save Peck from a snake bite. Despite being extremely poor, the parents agree to Jody looking after the fawn until it's old enough to go back to the wild. Of course Jody and the fawn become so attached that this proves difficult, even though the grown deer is a huge nuisance, eating crops and trashing the farm.
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The film was based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel of the same name written in 1938. It was initially published as an adult novel, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, staying top of the bestseller
