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In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American li...
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"Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings took to the backwoods of Florida in 1927 to work on her literary projects. She left behind a husband who was unwilling to relocate, and fashioned a working studio in the most rural of southern locations. The trials she experienced, both creatively and physically, are depicted in this slow-moving, yet well-intentioned enactment. Filmed in lovely Technicolor in Marion and Alachna Counties, Florida by John Alonzo, to the accompaniment of a lush score by Leonard Roseman, the movie attempts to capture Rawling's varied experiences in pursuit of her writing..."
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Norton Baskin, portrayed in the movie by Peter Coyote and the real life second husband of the source novelist and film subject Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, has a small role in the movie as the man in a rocking chair giving directions to Marjorie to the hotel. Baskin also acted as a consultant to the picture.
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In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American li...