The Yearling
original film poster
Directed by	Clarence Brown
Produced by	Sidney Franklin
Written by	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (novel) Paul Osborn (screenplay)
Starring	Gregory Peck Jane Wyman Claude Jarman Jr.
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	December 18, 1946 (U.S. release)
Running time	128 min
Language	English
Budget	$4,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

The Yearling is a 1946 family film drama made by MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Sidney Franklin. The screenplay was by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited), adapted from the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It tells the story of a boy who adopts a fawn as a pet and stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker. Image File history File links 199482. ... Clarence Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. ... Sidney Franklin, (born Sidney Frumkin, 1903-1976), was the first American to become a successful bullfighter. ... Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1953 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in remote rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. ... Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ... Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). ... Claude Jarman Jr. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... In the Gregorian Calendar, December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years), at which point there will be 13 days remaining to the end of the year. ... See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ... A family film is a film genre that, like a childrens film, is suitable for young children, but with the difference that a family film has been carefully written, directed, cast and acted so that it will appeal to all members of a typical family (or if not typical... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Clarence Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. ... Sidney Franklin, (21 March 1893, San Francisco, USA - 18 May 1972, Santa Monica, USA), was an American film director and producer. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Paul Osborn (September 4, 1901-May 12, 1988) was a playwrite and screenwriter most well known for writing the screen adaptation of East of Eden as well as South Pacific, The Yearling, and Sayonara. ... John Lee Mahin, (August 23, 1902 - April 18, 1984) was a prolific screenwriter and producer. ... Look up yearling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1953 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in remote rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. ... Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ... Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). ... Claude Jarman Jr. ... Chill Wills (July 18, 1903 in Seagoville, Texas – December 15, 1978) was an actor and singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet. ... Forrest Tucker (right) in Cosmic Monsters. ...

The Yearling won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color and Best Cinematography, Color and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gregory Peck), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Wyman), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture. Jarman Jr., who gets the most screen time, was awarded a special "Juvenile Oscar". The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ... The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ... The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ... // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ...

Plot

The Yearling is a timeless Pulitzer Prize winning story with earthy dialect about the Baxter family set in the south in the middle of a slew of southern escapades. The Baxter son, Jody Baxter, asks for something more than their comfortable home, a pet, in fact a fawn named Flag. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...

Penny Baxter, a rebel soldier, (Gregory Peck) and his wife, Ora (Jane Wyman), become pioneer farmers in Florida after the American Civil War. Jody Baxter (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 pa. Ora, however, is still haunted by the deaths of the three other children of the family; she is very somber and hard-hearted and is (strangely) afraid that Jody will end up dying if she shows her parental love to him. Jody finds her somewhat unloving and unreasonable. Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. ... Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). ... Claude Jarman Jr. ...

With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody longs for a pet to play with and take care of. Penny is sympathetic and understanding, but Ora is rather disgusted. One day, when a rattler 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.

Jody goes to ask his frail friend Fodderwing to name the fawn only to find he has recently died. However Fodderwing's father says he always said that if he had a Fawn he would name him Flag.

Soon, he and Flag are inseparable. One year later, Flag grows up and becomes a total nuisance to the household and farm; it eats newly-grown corn, destroys fences, and tramples on tobacco crops. Penny orders Jody to take the deer out into the woods and shoot it to death. Jody takes the deer out, but does not have the courage to kill it; he orders the deer to go away and never return instead. But Flag comes back to their property. Finally, Ora (who did not want the deer on their property in the first place) takes the gun and shoots it but only wounds it. Penny orders Jody to put the deer out of its misery. Rather than let his pet deer be in agonizing pain, he follows his father's orders.

Trailhead of the Yearling Trail.

The loss of Jody's beloved pet deer proves too much for him to handle; overwhelmed with anger and despair, he runs away from home. Three days later, he is rescued by a friendly boat captain and returns home. He and Penny quickly make up, and Penny tells him that Ora had been out searching for him. Just before Jody goes to bed, Ora returns and sees that he is back. She becomes filled with happiness and emotion, knowing that her huge fear of losing her last child is now over. She happily runs into Jody's room and showers him with more affection than she ever gave him. She is no longer afraid to show her parental love to him. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x1152, 468 KB) Summary Photograph of entrance to Yearling Train in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness, Ocala National Forest, Florida, USA taken by Rolf Müller on January 28, 2006 using a Canon Inc. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x1152, 468 KB) Summary Photograph of entrance to Yearling Train in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness, Ocala National Forest, Florida, USA taken by Rolf Müller on January 28, 2006 using a Canon Inc. ...

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The movie was filmed on location in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness. A hiking trail in the area ("The Yearling Trail") is named after the story and gives access to sites where the family whose stories inspired the novel lived. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... The Juniper Prairie Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Ocala National Forest in Florida, USA. // Area description Post-fire regrowth in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness. ...

Trivia

• The movie was a main subject of an episode of the Gilmore Girls in which the town is having an annual movie night. The Yearling has been played for several years, and Lorelai attempts to have the "official" movie changed. But in the end, with the limited and unimpressive list looked over, The Yearling is reclaimed as the official Stars Hollow film for the annual movie night.

• The film was remade as a television movie by CBS in 1994 starring Peter Strauss, Jean Smart and Wil Horneff as Penny, Ora and Jody Baxter respectively.