Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay was based on the lighthearted joint autobiography of actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and humorist Emily Kimbrough. Gail Russell and Diana Lynn star respectively as Cornelia and Emily, two innocent but fun-loving young girls at loose in the Roaring 20s. The story concerns the girls' first trip abroad to London and Paris, and the various misadventures encountered therein. The more amusing moments involve a pair of rabbit-skin capes that begin shedding at the most inopportune moments, and a lengthy episode in which the girls are stranded atop Notre Dame Cathedral at midnight. And of course there's romance, in the form of handsome young doctor Tom Newhall (Bill Edwards) and college "Lothario" Avery Moore (James Brown). Also appearing are Charlie Ruggles as Cornelia's actor-father Otis Skinner and Dorothy Gish (whose talkie film appearances were sadly infrequent) as Mrs. Skinner. So well-received was Our Hearts Were Young and Gay that Paramount commissioned a 1946 sequel, Our Hearts Were Growing Up . ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Gail Russell - Cornelia Otis Skinner
- James Brown - Avery Moore
- Dorothy Gish - Mrs. Otis Skinner
- Beulah Bondi - Miss Abigail Horn
- Jean Heather - Frances "Smitty" Smithers
- Nina Koshetz - Herself
- Roland Varno - Pierre Cambouille
- Valentine Perkins - English Girl
- Reginald Sheffield - Purser
- Eugene Borden - Coachman
- Maxine Fife - Girl
- Evan Thomas - Bus driver
- Ottola Nesmith - Fur shop owner
- Marie McDonald - Blonde
- Roland DuPree - Boy at dance
- Alphonse Martell - Guard
- Olaf Hytten - Deck steward
- Diana Lynn - Emily Kimbrough
- Bill Edwards - Tom Newhall
- Charlie Ruggles - Mr. Otis Skinner
- Alma Kruger - Mrs. Lamberton
- Helen Freeman - Mrs. Smithers
- Georges Renavent - Monsieur Darnet
- Joy Harrington - English Girl
- Holmes Herbert - Captain
- Edmund Breon - Cockney Guide
- Ronnie Rondell - Waiter
- Betty Farrington - Woman
- Will Stanton - Cockney Room Steward
- Noel Neill - Girl
- Nell Craig - Mother of little girl
- Queenie Leonard - Maid
- Maurice Marsac - Headwaiter
- Frank Elliott - Doctor
- Director(s):
- Lewis Allen
- Writer(s):
- Sheridan Gibney
- Producer(s):
- Sheridan Gibney
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