The Sailor Takes a Wife
Appearance
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Directed by | Richard Whorf |
Written by | |
Based on | play Happily Ever After by Chester Erskine |
Produced by | Edwin H. Knopf |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Sidney Wagner |
Edited by | Irvine Warburton |
Music by | Johnny Green |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release dates |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,012,000[1] |
Box office | $2,559,000[1] |
The Sailor Takes a Wife is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Robert Walker and June Allyson.
Plot
[edit]During World War II, a sailor in New York City who is about to be shipped out to Europe marries a woman he has just met. Then he unexpectedly receives a medical discharge.
Cast
[edit]- Robert Walker as John Hill
- June Allyson as Mary Hill
- Hume Cronyn as Freddie Potts
- Audrey Totter as Lisa Borescu
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Harry
- Reginald Owen as Mr. Amboy
- Gerald Oliver Smith as Gerald
Reception
[edit]According to MGM records, the film earned $2,269,000 in the US and Canada and $290,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $683,000.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ Another source says $2.5 million in US rentals "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
External links
[edit]- The Sailor Takes a Wife at IMDb
- The Sailor Takes a Wife at the TCM Movie Database
- Review of film at Variety
Categories:
- 1946 films
- 1946 romantic comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- American films based on plays
- Films directed by Richard Whorf
- Films set in New York City
- Films set on the home front during World War II
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language romantic comedy films
- Romantic comedy film stubs