Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The Yearling movie actually started filming in 1941 with Spencer Tracy, but a little war known as World War II got in the way. (source)
During filming of the 1946 movie, 5 different fawns played Flag: they grew too quickly to look consistent.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' home in Cross Creek, Florida, where she wrote the book, was used for filming some of the location scenes in the movie. Love those cameos.
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