TIME: 'The Yearling Should Have Never Made It to Broadway'
Top 10 Movies That Shouldn't Have Made It to Broadway
10. The Yearling
Ah, The Yearling — that classic tale about a boy and his fawn.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the novel, but the play wasn't quite as successful.
It opened in December 1965 and closed after just three performances. Barbra Streisand recorded some of the music; no word on who played the deer.
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