The Impatient Years is a 1944 romance film made by Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

, directed by Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings , born Irving Camisky in New York City, New York was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer....

, and written by Virginia Van Upp.

Plot

The film starts with Andy and Janie Anderson seated on opposite sides of a court room filing for a divorce. As the judge is about to render his verdict, Janie's father makes a suggestion. In an attempt to save the marriage, William suggests that the couple return to San Francisco (where they met a year and a half ago) for four days and retrace all of their steps to include getting married.

Cast

• Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur
  Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
  
   as Janie Anderson
• Lee Bowman
  Lee Bowman
  Lee Bowman was an American film and television actor.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowman graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1936 and began his film career playing a bit part in Swing High, Swing Low .His many film appearances include A Man to Remember , Love Affair , Third...
  
   as Andy Anderson
• Charles Coburn
  Charles Coburn
  Charles Douville Coburn was an American film and theater actor.-Biography:Coburn was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Scots-Irish Americans Emma Louise Sprigman and Moses Douville Coburn. Growing up in Savannah, he started out doing odd jobs at the local Savannah Theater, handing out programs,...
  
   as William Smith
• Edgar Buchanan
  Edgar Buchanan
  Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s...
  
   as Judge
• Charley Grapewin as Benjamin L. Pidgeon, Bellboy
• Phil Brown as Henry Fairchild
• Harry Davenport as Minister
• Jane Darwell as Minister's Wife
• Grant Mitchell
  Grant Mitchell (actor)
  Grant Mitchell was an American stage actor on Broadway and character actor in many Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  as Hotel Clerk