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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 ...
The Impatient Years: Directed by Irving Cummings. With Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn, Edgar Buchanan. To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Irving Cummings
- 1944-09-10
Film Length. 8,189ft. When he is called to testify at his daughter Janie's divorce hearing, William Smith advises the judge against granting the divorce. Smith suggests that the couple's problems arose during their long separation after a whirl-wind courtship and recalls the day that Janie's soldier husband, Andy Anderson, returned home on ...
- Irving Cummings, Abby Berlin
- Jean Arthur
The Impatient Years (1944) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Impatient Years. To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders Sgt. Andy Anderson (Lee Bowman) and his wife, Janie (Jean Arthur), to reenact their four-day breakneck courtship.
- Irving Cummings
- Comedy, Drama
- Jean Arthur
"The Impatient Years" deserves to be rediscovered. The script and the playing by Jean Arthur and Lee Bowman (as Janie and Andy) showed great daring by going against the grain of WW2 romances in showing the reality behind the media-driven fantasy that marrying soldiers during wartime was a patriotic duty and the epitome of romantic love.
The Impatient Years. (1944) Directed by Irving Cummings. Janie and Andy Anderson were newlyweds during Andy’s military service. Since Andy’s return, the two feel estranged—despite their new baby—and seek a divorce. Ordered instead by the judge to retrace the steps of their courtship, they re-discover and re-kindle their original spark ...
