The Yearling is a 1946 American family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin was a
Theatrical release poster designed by Douglass Crockwell (November 1946)
On set, L-R: Leonard Smith, unknown & Clarence Brown
Trailhead of The Yearling Trail
Image from the pre-production and location scouting of MGM
Claude Miller Jarman Jr. was an American actor. He became a child star with his role as Jody Baxter in The Yearling, for which he won an Academy Juvenile Award. Further roles in films like Intruder in
The Yearling (1946 film)
…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. in his film debut, Chill Wills and Forrest Tucker. The story follows a boy named Jody, who adopts a trouble-making young deer. The story was later…
In Intruder In The Dust (1949)
Jarman Jr. in the trailer of the film High Barbaree (1947)
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, and Jarman Jr. in Rio Grande (1950)