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The Impatient Years (1944)

The Impatient Years poster
Directed by
Irving Cummings
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A couple rushes into marriage before the man is deployed overseas. When he returns, they struggle to adjust to civilian life and rediscover their feelings for each other.

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What happens

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 her contract was over. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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