The Jane Young House Open House, 629 Elm Street, Webster City, will be open Saturday featuring a clothing exhibit that pays homage to the movies.

This event is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Entrance to the exhibit is a $5 donation per person.

One of the four upstairs exhibit rooms at the Jane Young House, 629 Elm Street, features Webster City’s very own MacKinlay Kantor. He was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner for “Andersonville,” a book about a Confederate prison during the Civil War in Georgia. An interesting fact is that Kantor sold the rights to his novel, but a film with the same title was produced based on a different script, not Kantor’s work.

The most familiar book to Webster City is most likely “God and My Country,” 1954. This was made into a Disney movie called “Follow Me Boys,” 1966, starring Fred MacMurray as scoutmaster Lem Siddons. The story highlights the positive influence of a dedicated scoutmaster and the importance of community in a small town. Also starring was Kurt Russell as he made his Disney debut as a young Boy Scout named Whitey. This film was the last Disney feature to be released in Walt Disney’s lifetime. Disney passed away two weeks after its opening in December of 1966.

A number of Kantor’s other books were “in the movies.”

Films made from Kantor’s novels include: “The Voice of Bugle Ann,” 1936, with the same title as the book; “The Man From Dakota,” 1940, an American Civil War film based on the book, “Arouse and Beware” by Kantor; “Happy Land,” 1943, a film starring Don Ameche based on the book with the same title by Kantor; “Gentle Annie,” 1944, a western-themed movie starring Donna Reed; “The Best Years of Our Lives,” 1946, an American drama starring Myrna Loy,

based on the novel “Glory for Me,” 1945, by Kantor; “Romance of Rosy Ridge,” 1947, an American western film with Van Johnson based on a book with the same name in 1937 by Kantor; “Gun Crazy,” 1950, an American crime film noir; “Gun Crazy,” 1940, based on a story in the Saturday Evening Post written by Kantor; “Hannah Lee,” 1953, an American western film written by Kantor; “Wind Across the Everglades,” 1958, was a film Kantor appeared in as an actor.