The Young in Heart is a 1938 American comedy film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by Richard Wallace, and starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Paulette Goddard.

[1]A family of con artists led by "Colonel" Anthony "Sahib" Carleton and his wife "Marmy" are working the French Riviera in search of wealthy potential mates for their daughter George-Anne and son Richard.

The local police find out about the Carleton family, provide them with complimentary train tickets to London, courtesy of Mr. Jennings, and order them to leave the country.

The initially reluctant colonel is soon applying his con artist skills so successfully that he is promoted to manager of the London branch.

Gradually the two men begin to find the value of honest work and start to feel guilty about taking advantage of Miss Fortune.

Gathered in worried watch outside her sick room, they dismiss Anstruther's news that she no longer has any money and she will even lose her house.

Sometime later, a recovered Miss Ellen drives Anstruther uncomfortably fast in her Flying Wombat to the Carletons' house, where she now lives.

The Broadway stars Maude Adams and Laurette Taylor originally screen tested for the part of Miss Fortune, which eventually went to Minnie Dupree.