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9 unusual facts about Our Hearts Were Young and Gay


Bethel Leslie

In 1950, Leslie was cast as Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Girls, a television series based on the author's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

With Emily Kimbrough, she wrote Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, a light-hearted description of their European tour after college.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (with Emily Kimbrough, 1942) Dodd, Mead and Company Inc.

Ethel M. Dell

In Cornelia Otis Skinner's popular Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1942), the narrator said her travel-mate was well read but that she herself "had a secret letch for Ethel M. Dell."

Gail Russell

Russell appeared in several more films in the early and mid-1940s, the most notable being The Uninvited (1944) with Ray Milland and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944), in which she co-starred with Diana Lynn.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The book was made into a motion picture in 1944, and was dramatized by Jean Kerr in 1946.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is a book by actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough, published in 1942.

The book presents a description of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr.

Ted Grouya

Grouya also wrote the music for the film version of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944) and other films.



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