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Claude Jarman Jr., Young Star of 'The Yearling,' Dies at 90
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Claude Jarman Jr., Young Star of ‘The Yearling,’ Dies at 90
His brief time in the Hollywood limelight included a Juvenile Academy Award and appearances in 'Rio Grande,' 'Intruder in the Dust' and 'Roughshod.'
By Mike Barnes
January 12, 2025 5:47pm
Claude Jarman Jr. in 'The Yearling.' MGM/Photofest
Claude Jarman Jr., who received a Juvenile Academy Award for his heart-tugging performance as the boy who adopts an orphaned fawn in the 1946 MGM classic The Yearling, died Sunday. He was 90. ... Jarman died in his sleep of natural causes at his Marin County home in Kentfield, California, his wife of 38 years, Katie, told THR’s Scott Feinberg.
In films released in 1949, Jarman starred with Jeanette MacDonald in the Lassie movie The Sun Comes Up, played the brother of a rancher on the run (Robert Sterling) in Roughshod and reteamed with Yearling director Clarence Brown to portray a youngster out to prove the innocence of a Black man in Intruder in the Dust, based on the William Faulkner novel and filmed in Oxford, Mississippi. ... A year later, he played the son of a cavalry officer (John Wayne) in John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950).
Born on Sept. 27, 1934, Jarman was the 10-year-old son of a Nashville railroad accountant when Brown came to his fifth-grade classroom on Valentine’s Day 1945 while randomly visiting schools in the South to scout kids for The Yearling.
“Next thing, they called three days later and said, ‘Get ready to leave for Hollywood in a week,'” Jarman recalled in a 2016 interview with Alan K. Rode for the Film Noir Foundation. ... He was soon hired to play Jody Baxter, the lonely son of Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman’s characters, in The Yearling, adapted from the 1939 book by Pulitzer Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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His brief time in the Hollywood limelight included a Juvenile Academy Award and appearances in 'Rio Grande,' 'Intruder in the Dust' and 'Roughshod.'
By Mike Barnes
January 12, 2025 5:47pm
Claude Jarman Jr. in 'The Yearling.' MGM/Photofest
Claude Jarman Jr., who received a Juvenile Academy Award for his heart-tugging performance as the boy who adopts an orphaned fawn in the 1946 MGM classic The Yearling, died Sunday. He was 90. ... Jarman died in his sleep of natural causes at his Marin County home in Kentfield, California, his wife of 38 years, Katie, told THR’s Scott Feinberg.
In films released in 1949, Jarman starred with Jeanette MacDonald in the Lassie movie The Sun Comes Up, played the brother of a rancher on the run (Robert Sterling) in Roughshod and reteamed with Yearling director Clarence Brown to portray a youngster out to prove the innocence of a Black man in Intruder in the Dust, based on the William Faulkner novel and filmed in Oxford, Mississippi. ... A year later, he played the son of a cavalry officer (John Wayne) in John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950).
Born on Sept. 27, 1934, Jarman was the 10-year-old son of a Nashville railroad accountant when Brown came to his fifth-grade classroom on Valentine’s Day 1945 while randomly visiting schools in the South to scout kids for The Yearling.
“Next thing, they called three days later and said, ‘Get ready to leave for Hollywood in a week,'” Jarman recalled in a 2016 interview with Alan K. Rode for the Film Noir Foundation. ... He was soon hired to play Jody Baxter, the lonely son of Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman’s characters, in The Yearling, adapted from the 1939 book by Pulitzer Prize winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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