Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)
- Starring:
- Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, (more)
- Director(s):
- William D. Russell
Synopsis of Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Our Hearts Were Growing Up is the sequel to Paramount's surprise 1944 hit Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. The first film was based on the memoirs of actress Cornelia Otis Skinner; the sequel was inspired by the fevered imaginations of the screenwriters. Gail Russell plays Ms. Skinner, while Diana Lynn costars as Cornelia's best friend Emily Kimbrough. This time the girls visit the college boyfriends, only to become involve with a pair of benign bootleggers, portrayed by Brian Donlevy and William Demarest. Their misguided association with the criminal results in consternation for Cornelia's father, the eminent stage actor Otis Skinner (Charlie Ruggles). Ironically, Gail Russell, who played Cornelia Otis Skinner in both of the Our Hearts films, was cast opposite the real Ms. Skinner in the 1943 ghost chiller The Uninvited--and was nearly murdered by the older actress in the course of the plotline! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Our Hearts Were Growing Up
- Gail Russell - Cornelia Otis Skinner
- Brian Donlevy - Tony Minnetti
- Bill Edwards - Dr. Tom Newhall
- Billy De Wolfe - Roland du Frere
- Mary Hatcher - Dibs Downing
- Mikhail Rasumny - Bubchanko
- Frank Faylen - Federal Agent
- Roland DuPree - Freshman
- Mona Freeman - Girl
- Maggie Mahoney - Lowell schoolgirl
- Garry Owen - Bellboy
- Dorothy Reisner
- Theodore Rand - Gangster
- Gladys Gale - Mrs. Appley
- Gig Young - Roger
- Douglas Walton - Terence Marlowe
- Cyril Ring - Hotel desk clerk
- Matt McHugh - Cab driver
- Al Hill - Louie
- Ann Doran - Monica Lonsdale
- Diana Lynn - Emily Kimbrough
- James Brown - Avery Moore
- William Demarest - Peanuts Schultz
- Sharon Douglas - Suzanne Carter
- Sara Haden - Miss Dill
- Isabel Randolph - Mrs. Southworth
- Benny Burt - Gangster
- Virginia Farmer - Miss Thatcher
- John Indrisano - Maxie
- John Miller - Cab driver
- Byron Barr - Roger
- Guy Zanette - Barney
- Sam Finn - Gangster
- Charles Williams - Cab driver
- Pierre Watkin - Producer
- Charles Saggau - Freshman
- James Millican - Stage manager
- Arthur Loft - Desk sergeant
- Margaret Field
- Nell Craig - Teacher
- Director(s):
- William D. Russell
- Writer(s):
- Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
- Producer(s):
- Daniel Dare
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