Baby Fae Baby Fae Stephanie Fae Beauclair (October 14, 1984 – November 15, 1984), better known as Baby Fae, was an American infant born in 1984 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. She became the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure and first successful infant heart transplant, receiving the heart of a baboon. Though she died within a month of the procedure, she lived weeks longer than any previous recipient of a non-human heart. The procedure, performed by Leonard L. Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center, was successful, but Fae died 21 days later of heart failure due to rejection of
The Young in Heart of the H. J. Heinz family and Maurice Schwartz of the Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company in Pasadena, California. "The Young in Heart" was reviewed in "Variety" where the film received a positive review; "This is a beautiful and deeply touching picture, skilfully adapted from I.A.R. Wylie's poignant magazine story." Despite favorable critical reviews, the film lost $517,000 at the box office. Franz Waxman received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Scoring for his work in "The Young in Heart". Leon Shamroy's cinematography was also nominated. The Young in Heart The Young in Heart