by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The Young Lovers is the more familiar title of a 1950 drama originally released as Never Fear. Sally Forrest plays a beautiful young dancer who is crippled with polio. Forrest's dance partner Keefe Brasselle wants to see her through her illness, but the embittered Forrest prefers to be alone. Only by allowing others to share her grief is Forrest able to pull herself together and go on with her life. Though The Young Lovers is listed as Ida Lupino's directorial debut, she'd previously helmed Not Wanted (49) (also starring Forrest and Brasselle) when official director Elmer Clifton fell ill.
characteristics
- Polio
- Promise
- Partner
- Overcome
- Lover
- Mental-breakdown
- Reality
- Ruin
- Young
- Youth
- Team
- Suffering
- Sickness
- Influence
- Incapacitation
