The Young Lovers (1949)
Also known as Never Fear
1949 · Feature film · 81 min · dir. Ida Lupino
People don't stop loving when things go wrong!
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Ida Lupino
- Writer
- Collier Young
- Composer
- Leith Stevens
- Cinematography
- Archie Stout
- Studio
- The Filmakers
- Released
- 1950-01-04
- Running time
- 81 minutes
Cast & crew
Ida Lupino Director
Sally Forrest
Keefe Brasselle
Hugh O'Brian
Eve Miller
Lawrence Dobkin
Rita Lupino
Herbert Butterfield
Stanley Waxman
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Okay Message Film · PDGazette2 · 2017-04-29
Director Lupino did the best she could with the low budgets her producers coughed up, at a time when there were no other name women directors still working. The cast is earnest enough; Forrest became a pretty good actress by the end of her short film career, in While The City Sleeps (1956), then never made another film. The polio rehab sequences are interesting -- the patients even perform a square dance in their wheelchairs! Hugh O'Brien is touching as a 'victim' whose disease is too advanced for him to recover his walking ability. Also notable: Eve Miller as the pretty divorcee secretary in…
