The Late George Apley is a 1947 American comedy romance film about a stuffy, upper-class Bostonian who is forced to adjust to a changing world.

[1][2] A 45-minute adaptation starring Raymond Massey and Joanne Woodward was made in 1955, and aired as an episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour on CBS television.

It is 1912, and George Apley (Ronald Colman) is a stuffy, self-satisfied member of Boston's upper class, supremely confident of the superiority of his hometown and his family.

His comfortable, predictable world is overturned when he learns, to his horror, that both his son and his daughter have fallen in love with non-Bostonians instead of with the partners Mr. Apley and the family have arranged.

Son John, always intended for his cousin Agnes, a shy girl who adores him, has fallen for Myrtle, the daughter of a successful manufacturer who lives in Worcester.

Among Boulder's offenses, besides coming from New York and attending Yale, is his teaching that Emerson was, for his time, a radical (which George has accepted by the end of the film).

George really begins to see himself through others' eyes when he is rejected for president of the bird-watching club because of his refusal to allow an undesirable relative to be buried in the family plot and because of his actions to separate the young lovers.