The Green Years

"It's the Book with a Heartful of Love that Thrilled Millions!"

An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.

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Charles Coburn

Alexander Gow

Tom Drake

Robert Shannon as young man

Hume Cronyn

Papa Leckie

Gladys Cooper

Grandma Leckie

Dean Stockwell

Robert Shannon as a child

Selena Royle

Mama Leckie

Jessica Tandy

Kate Leckie

Richard Haydn

Jason Reid

Andy Clyde

Saddler Boag

Norman Lloyd

Adam Leckie

Robert North

Murdoch Leckie

Beverly Tyler

Alison Keith as a young lady

Wallace Ford

Jamie Nigg

Eilene Janssen

Alison Keith as a child

Richard Lyon

Gavin Blair as a child

Henry O'Neill

Canon Roche

Henry Stephenson

Blakely

Norma Varden

Mrs. Bosomley

Henry H. Daniels Jr.

Gavin Blair as a young man

Ada Adams

Alison's Mother

Norman Ainsley

Sub-Deacon

Harry Allen

Purser Teeler

Dick Ames

Assistant Inspector

Sylvia Andrew

Miss Glennie

Morris Ankrum

Dr. Galbraith

Jimmy Aubrey

Speller

David Bair

Schoolboy

Charles Bates

Angelo Friscalli

Kathryn Bates

Mrs. McTavish

Norman Borine

Baggage Man

George Broughton

Assistant Sanitary Inspector

Russell Burroughs

Monitor

Gabriel Canzona

Organ Grinder

Andy Colman

John Considine

Schoolboy

Robert Cory

Ashley Cowan

McEwen

Peter Cusanelli

Father Friscalli

Boyd Davis

Master

Helen Dickson

Woman at Fair

Yvette Duguay

Daughter

Virginia S. Ellsworth

Daughter

Herbert Evans

Lector

Richard Glynn

Schoolboy

Gloria Gordon

Gary Gray

Boy Making First Communion

Bobby Hale

Lumsden Hare

Lawyer McKellar

Forrester Harvey

Peter Dickie

Bonnie Henjum

Daughter

Tommy Hughes

Brandon Hurst

Bookseller

Tiny Jones

Woman at Fair

Colin Kenny

Registrar

Donald Kerr

Official at Fair

Tom Leffingwell

Station Guard

Mitchell Lewis

Smithy

Therese Lyon

Janet Sue Marx

Girl

Eric Mayne

Singing Teacher

John C. McCallum

Baggage Man

George McDonald

Bertie Jamieson

David McManus

Boy

Peggy Miller

Louisa

William O'Leary

Mr. McTavish

Penny Parker

Tom Pilkington

Postman

Jean Ransome

Mrs. Wallace

John Power

Constable

James Reid

Dorothy Reisner

Daughter Friscalli

Carmela Restivo

Mother Friscalli

Blanche Rose

Elderly Lady

Charles Sadler

Angus

Richard Scott

Bill Scully

Priest

Violet Seton

Rhubarb Woman

Allen D. Sewall

Station Master

Edgar Sherrod

Johnson

Guy Stockwell

Young Boy

Victor Saville

Director

Leon Gordon

Producer

Herbert Stothart

Original Music Composer

Robert Kern

Editor

A.J. Cronin

Writer

Robert Ardrey

Screenplay

Sonya Levien

Screenplay

George J. Folsey

Director of Photography