The Green Years is a 1946 American comedy-drama film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler and Hume Cronyn.

The young Robert suffers life's trials, and the kind, old great-grandfather, despite given to drink and tall tales, is always there to help him rebound.

It's a story about an orphan Irish lad taken in by Scottish relatives where the boy begins a long and loving relationship with his rather crusty but fascinating great-grandfather.

In our movie there's also Charles Coburn giving a rip-roaring performance which earned him a Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination as Robert's gruff but very loving great-grandad.

Well, when the director, Victor Saville, actually found out she was pregnant, he was gonna replace Jessica, but then he couldn't find anybody he thought could do the part as well as she.

"You know, it's kind of hard to grasp the fact that sweet-faced little Dean Stockwell who we just saw as the young Robert, is the same fellow who, years later, played the lip-synching psychopath in David Lynch's Blue Velvet.

Then there's a grown-up Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet and Paris, Texas, Oscar-nominated for Married to the Mob, and a big part of the hit cable series, Battlestar Galactica.