- HD 1080
- Runtime: 91m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Irving Cummings
- Stars: Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn, Edgar Buchanan, Charley Grapewin
- keywords: judge, marriage, divorce
- Production_studio: Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: They found the answer to WAR-TIME MARRIAGES in the middle of a KISS!
- The The Impatient Years is featured in the top rankings of 1944
- #19 in Top Comedy Movies of 1944
- #15 in Top Romance Movies of 1944
- #35 in Top Drama Movies of 1944
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.