The Young in Heart (1938) on Netflix
A family of con artists works the French Riviera, hunting rich matches for daughter George-Anne and son Richard. Ordered out of France, they take a London train and meet Ellen Fortune.
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Plot summary
The Carleton family makes its living by fraud. On the French Riviera, Colonel Anthony Carleton, known as Sahib, and his wife Marmy hunt wealthy suitors for their children: George-Anne toys with the Scotsman Duncan Macrae until she learns he has no money, and Richard becomes engaged to Adela Jennings, whose senator father loses a large sum to Sahib at poker. The police order the family out, and on the train to London George-Anne meets Ellen Fortune, a lonely spinster who inherited a fortune. When the train derails, the Carletons pull her free, and she invites them to her London house, where they hope to earn a place in her will, watched by her suspicious lawyer Felix Anstruther.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Young in Heart (1938)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Broadway stars Maude Adams and Laurette Taylor both screen tested for the part of Miss Ellen Fortune, which eventually went to Minnie Dupree; their tests, made by David Selznick, survive and are the only audio-visual record of the two actresses.
- The Young in Heart was Janet Gaynor's last screen role: she retired while at the height of her career, making only one more film, 1957's Bernardine.
- The Flying Wombat, the six-passenger two-door sedan seen in the film, was really the one-of-a-kind prototype Phantom Corsair, a 1938 concept car designed by Rust Heinz of the Heinz family and Maurice Schwartz of the Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company in Pasadena, California.
