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unusual facts about The Young Lovers


David Kossoff

Film credits included The Young Lovers (1954 - for which he won a British Academy Film Award as Most Promising Newcomer to Film), A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), his role as Morry in the Oscar-winning The Bespoke Overcoat (1956), Professor Kokintz in The Mouse that Roared (1959) and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon (1963) with Bernard Cribbins.



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Podkayne of Mars

In a letter to Lurton Blassingame, his literary agent, Heinlein complained that it would be like "revising Romeo and Juliet to let the young lovers live happily ever after."