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The Impatient Years (1944)  link to The Impatient Years on IMDb  

Number: 3613

poster The Impatient Years

IMDb Rating:
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6.5/10 (308 votes)

Country: USA, 91 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Director(s): Irving Cummings

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love. They return to the coffee counter where they met and, later, their actions and conversations in the hotel where they register in separate rooms arouses the suspicions of the hotel clerk and the old, ubiquitous wartime "bellboy" who set themselves up as Janie's guardian. Janie and Andy go to the license bureau and even go to the same minister, with ...

Tagline: They found the answer to WAR-TIME MARRIAGES in the middle of a KISS!

Cast:

photo Jean Arthur Jean Arthur Janie Anderson
photo Lee Bowman Lee Bowman Andy Anderson
photo Charles Coburn Charles Coburn William Smith
photo Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan Judge
photo Charley Grapewin Charley Grapewin Benjamin L. Pidgeon - Bellboy

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3