This isn't meant to be a musical (there's certainly no dance routines), it is a drama featuring some songs. Basically Alex Burke (Gig Young) enters the lives of the Tuttle family, led by father Gregory (Robert Keith) with his three daughters Fran (Dorothy Malone), Amy (Elisabeth Fraser), and Laurie (Doris Day). Laurie and Alex seem to be made for each other, and become engaged, but things change when his friend, musical arranger Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) comes along. Laurie realises she has grown to have stronger feelings for Barney, and she also realises the mistake she would be making when she sees one of her sister's crying about the marriage, she loves Alex. So Laurie marries Barney, but he is convinced that his wife may still have feelings for Alex, and towards the end attempts suicide, and this is the night Laurie would announce she is pregnant, thank goodness there is a happy ending when all the family are together. Also starring Ethel Barrymore as Aunt Jessie Tuttle, Alan Hale Jr. as Robert Neary, Lonny Chapman as Ernest Nichols and Frank Ferguson as Bartell. Day offers a warm and sensitive performance with some great singing (they call her the Warner Brothers goldmine), Sinatra (also worked at Columbia records with Day) has his moments, even though he said he hated the soppy plot. You can almost agree with Sinatra concerning the ending, but you can't see it going any other way, so this is certainly a film to try and enjoy for songs, including one or two Day and Sinatra duets. Good!
Review of Young at Heart
