Younger Than Springtime Younger Than Springtime "Younger Than Springtime" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific". It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard. The song is performed in the first act by Lieutenant Cable when he makes love to his adored Liat, to whom he was only recently introduced by her mother Bloody Mary. The song shows that love just happens and does not follow the rules of racial separation prevalent in the United States at that time. In the original Broadway show, the song was performed by William Tabbert whilst in the 1958 film,
Springtime in the Rockies were divorced in 1965. Twentieth Century-Fox first filmed Wylie's story in 1936 under the title "Second Honeymoon". That picture was directed by Walter Lang and starred Tyrone Power and Loretta Young. Grable starred with Dick Powell in the "Lux Radio Theatre" version of the story, broadcast on 22 May 1944. The legal records reveal that in 1946, the studio intended to film another remake, entitled "Autumn in Acapulco", but that version was never produced. "Springtime in the Rockies" was a big hit for Grable and for Fox; it grossed about $2 million mark, among the ten most successful films at