The Impatient Years
1944 film by Irving Cummings
- September 14, 1944 (1944-09-14)
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The Impatient Years is a 1944 romance film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Irving Cummings, and written by Virginia Van Upp.
This was the final film Jean Arthur owed Columbia as part of her long contract which included periods of fights with studio boss Harry Cohn and resulted in a number of suspensions. Arthur was known to be thrilled her contract was over.
Plot
Andy (Lee Bowman) and Janie (Jean Arthur) Anderson are seated on opposite sides of a court room filing for a divorce. As the judge is about to render his verdict, Janie's father (Charles Coburn) makes a suggestion. In an attempt to save the marriage, William suggests that the couple return to San Francisco (where they met a year and a half ago) for four days and retrace all of their steps to include getting married.
Cast
- Jean Arthur as Janie Anderson
- Lee Bowman as Andy Anderson
- Charles Coburn as William Smith
- Edgar Buchanan as Judge
- Charley Grapewin as Benjamin L. Pidgeon, Bellboy
- Phil Brown as Henry Fairchild
- Harry Davenport as Minister
- Jane Darwell as Minister's Wife
- Grant Mitchell as Hotel Clerk
- Bob Haymes as Singer
Home media
The film is available on DVD as part of the Jean Arthur Comedy Collection, released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.[1]
References
- ^ Dave Kehr (November 11, 2011). "Sweetness With Spine". The New York Times.
External links
- The Impatient Years at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Impatient Years at IMDb
- The Impatient Years at AllMovie
- The Impatient Years at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- The Impatient Years at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Irving Cummings
- Flesh and Blood (1922)
- Broad Daylight (1922)
- The Jilt (1922)
- The Man from Hell's River (1922)
- Paid Back (1922)
- Environment (1922)
- The Drug Traffic (1923)
- East Side - West Side (1923)
- Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
- Stolen Secrets (1924)
- In Every Woman's Life (1924)
- Riders Up (1924)
- Fools Highway (1924)
- The Dancing Cheat (1924)
- The Rose of Paris (1924)
- As Man Desires (1925)
- One Year to Live (1925)
- Just a Woman (1925)
- The Desert Flower (1925)
- Infatuation (1925)
- The Johnstown Flood (1926)
- Rustling for Cupid (1926)
- The Midnight Kiss (1926)
- The Country Beyond (1926)
- Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1926)
- The Brute (1927)
- The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
- Romance of the Underworld (1928)
- Dressed to Kill (1928)
- In Old Arizona (1928)
- Behind That Curtain (1929)
- Not Quite Decent (1929)
- Cameo Kirby (1930)
- On the Level (1930)
- A Devil with Women (1930)
- A Holy Terror (1931)
- The Cisco Kid (1931)
- Attorney for the Defense (1932)
- The Night Club Lady (1932)
- Man Against Woman (1932)
- Man Hunt (1933)
- The Woman I Stole (1933)
- The Mad Game (1933)
- I Believed in You (1934)
- Grand Canary (1934)
- The White Parade (1934)
- Curly Top (1935)
- It's a Small World (1935)
- Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
- Girls' Dormitory (1936)
- White Hunter (1936)
- Vogues of 1938 (1937)
- Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)
- Little Miss Broadway (1938)
- Just Around the Corner (1938)
- Everything Happens at Night (1939)
- Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
- Lillian Russell (1940)
- Down Argentine Way (1940)
- That Night in Rio (1941)
- Belle Starr (1941)
- Louisiana Purchase (1941)
- My Gal Sal (1942)
- Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
- Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
- What a Woman! (1943)
- The Impatient Years (1944)
- The Dolly Sisters (1945)
- Double Dynamite (1951)
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