The Young in Heart

The Young in Heart (1938)

Charming to meet, but expensive to know!

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

Date of release
1938-07-06
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Richard Wallace

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 3

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. This was Richard Carlson's feature film debut, preceding The Duke of West Point by a month.

Production

The Broadway stars Maude Adams and Laurette Taylor originally screen tested for the part of Miss Fortune, which eventually went to Minnie Dupree. The screen tests of Adams and Taylor, made by David Selznick, survive and are the only audio-visual record of the actresses (although Taylor did star in a couple of silent films). Taylor's screen test can be seen on the DVD of Broadway: The Golden Age.

This was Gaynor's final film role before retiring while at the height of her career (she did make one more film, 1957's Bernardine).

Principal photography on The Young in Heart took place from May 2 to June 26, 1938.

The six-passenger 2-door sedan Flying Wombat featured in the film was actually the one-of-a-kind prototype Phantom Corsair. The Phantom Corsair concept car was built in 1938 and designed by Rust Heinz of the H. J. Heinz family and Maurice Schwartz of the Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company in Pasadena, California.

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