While as 'Arnold Hanson,' Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins says he is five years old at the beginning of the picture and cannot attend school like Margaret O'Brien's 'Selma Jacobson' character, who supposed to be a little older; he actually is only six months her junior, and both actors were born in the year 1937.
Selma Jacobson:
Georgie's gonna be a farmer when he grows up, and he's gonna raise buffalo.
Arnold Hanson:
Buffalo have all been killed - I know, my father killed them all.
Selma Jacobson:
All the same, they aren't all dead. Anyway, that's what Georgie's gonna be when he grows up.
Arnold Hanson:
When I grow up ...
In the opening scene, during the two-shot of Selma Jacobson and Arnold Hanson, he can be seen mouthing her lines as she says them.
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