1. - Claude Jarman Jr, The Yearling, 1945. Shooting started in April 1941... everything went wrong. Spencer Tracy’s son changed from Reynolds (too old at 15!) to Gene Eckman, who had a thick Georgia accent. An overweight Tracy knew he was wrong for the father - “looks like I ate the boy!” The project was postponed, and was totally re-cast four years later - using some ’41 location footage. Eckman was never chosen for another movie, Jarman became a producer and film festival organiser and Reynolds a highly succesful TV producer-director of M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, etc.