The Yearling

Lady Esther invites you to join the Screen Guild players to help celebrate a brilliant annual event. The Red Book Magazine Award for the outstanding picture of 1946. The Red Book selection this year, a Technicolor saga of American life.

A story so great and yet so beautiful in its simplicity that it will touch a warm chord in your hearts and live in your memory forever. Lady Esther presents with pride. Metro Golden Mayor's Great Academy Award contender, the Yearling, based on the book by Marjorie Kennan Rollins, and starring Gregory Peck as Penny Baxter,

Jane Wymanas Ory, and Claude Jarman Jr. as Jodi. Penny Baxter tells our story. For a beautiful day, the kind of day makes a man glad to be alive. The sun warm and promising, the earth breathing slow and easy like.

And still Ory, that's my wife, you see. Ory was rearing. Jody! JOOO! Where's that? Jody won exactly Gallivan after all the boys just 11, and he had a mighty reasonable explanation. Some honeybees was here, Pa, and I aim to fall and find a bee tree.

And well, the notion of taking me to go around, it's late mighty quick, Pa. Before you know it. Well, I was in the middle, you might say. I could feel for the hard life she'd had with me, cutting out our little farm out of that wilderness.

Fighting for every square inch of ground, fighting for our food and for what clothes we had. Fighting just to keep alive, sometimes losing. We've laid three youngins in our little berry and ground. Only Jody will lift. And I reckon that does something to a woman, make something inside her clothes up tight. So if it happens again,