Young At Heart is a vibrant "Warnercolor" Hollywood melodrama that features Doris Day and Frank Sinatra, in two establishing turns. The movie itself has not aged well and is typical of the type of films the studios turned out in the early fifties. But Sinatra and Day are sparkling together and the music they make is timeless.
The movie is about the musical, suburban Connecticut Tuttle family. Dr. Tuttle (Robert Keith) a professor of music at a local University. His sister Aunt Jessie (Ethel Barrymore) lives with him and his three daughters; Laurie (Doris Day), Fran (Dorothy Malone) and Amy (Elisabeth Fraser). The girls have the typical complicated love lives, that only become more complicated when first Alex Burke (Gig Young) comes into their lives, and then quickly followed by hard-luck case Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra)
The movie follows the love lives of these three women and includes suitors Bob (Alan Hale, Jr.) and Ernie (Lonny Chapman) and culminates with tragic events on Christmas Eve. Along the way we are treated to Doris and/or Frank singing such great songs as "Young At Heart", "Someone To watch Over Me" and "One For My baby( And One More For The Road)". The film also helped establish Sinatra's iconic identity as a romantic loner; playing a piano with a cigarette, shot glass and hat, late into the evening.
Dated but still enjoyable due to Sinatra and Day's star power with delightful turns by Ethel Barrymore and Gig Young.
At the Movie House rating *** stars
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