The Young in Heart

The Young in Heart is a 1938 American comedy film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by Richard Wallace, and starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Paulette Goddard. The supporting cast features Roland Young and Billie Burke. The screenplay by Paul Osborn was adapted by Charles Bennett from the novel The Young in Heart by I. A. R. Wylie. The music score by Franz Waxman received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Scoring. Leon Shamroys cinematography was also nominated.

On the train, GeorgeAnne meets a lonely old spinster named Miss Ellen Fortune Minnie Dupree who recently inherited a fortune from her former fianc whom she rejected in her youth. The kindhearted Miss Ellen invites GeorgeAnne and her family to her first class compartment, and the penniless family eagerly accepts, hoping to swindle her out of some of her money. While Miss Ellen treats them to dinner, the train derails, and they manage to save the old womans life. Grateful for their actions, she invites them to stay with her at her London mansion. Seeing an opportunity to make their way into Miss Ellens will, they treat her with kindness and spend evenings with her. Sahib and Richard also go out looking for jobs in order to persuade her suspicious lawyer that they can be trusted.Meanwhile, Duncan returns to London and looks up GeorgeAnne, whom he still loves, despite her rejections and her familys shady activities. He finds Sahib a job as a Flying Wombat car salesman, and the colonel is soon applying his con artist skills successfully to the car sales business. He is so successful that he is made the London sales manager and given an impressive raise. Richard also finds a job as a mail clerk at an engineering firm with the help of Leslie Saunders Paulette Goddard who is attracted to him, despite his flawed character. Soon he plans to take night courses in engineering to improve his life. Gradually the two men begin to find the value of honest work and start to feel guilty about taking advantage of Miss Ellen. GeorgeAnne and Marmy have also changed and honestly care about the old woman, but all four believe the others are still only after the inheritance. ........

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