Based on a short story by Sherwood Anderson, I'm a Fool stars
Ron Howard as a 1920s race-track groom. Told in bittersweet flashbacks, the story relates Howard's attempts to impress pretty debutante
Amy Irving by pretending to be rich. If only he'd just been "himself"...but by the time he realizes this, it's too late. Previous adaptations of the Anderson story have included a 1954
GE Theatre half-hour starring
James Dean. Shown in tandem with a dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Bernice Bobs Her Hair, the
Ron Howard version of I'm a Fool was first telecast April 5, 1977, on PBS'
American Short Story series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide