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Released December 28, 1945
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)
MGM
91 min. (Feature Film)

At a New York Canteen, sailor John Hill (Robert Walker) meets USO hostess Mary (June Allyson) and they elope the same night before he ships out to Europe. But John is unexpectedly classified 4F and discharged, leaving him and Mary to set up house sooner than expected, and realizing that they know very little about each other. A series of circumstances leave the newlyweds unable to spend their first honeymoon night together. Mary's ex-fiancee and boss Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn) is anxious to split the newlyweds up. Beautiful, European downstairs neighbor Lisa Borescue helps out by introducing John to prospective employer Mr. Amboy (Reginald Owen), and she's also anxious to seduce John. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson rounds out the main cast as the building superintendent.

Joe DeRita has a brief walk-on as an inept waiter in the first reel of the film.

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Robert Walker
John Hill

June Allyson
Mary Hill

Hume Cronyn
Freddie Potts

Audrey Totter
Lisa Borescue

Reginald Owen
Mr. Amboy

Henry Hall
J. Brown, Justice of the Peace

Jane Green
Mrs. Brown

Mary Lord
Office worker

Chester Clute
Lone diner

Marek Windheim
Headwaiter

Moyna MacGill
Irritated woman in restaurant

Betsy Stoddard
Mrs. Schlesinger, voice

Harry Hayden
Merchant

Eileen Morris
Model in window

Johnny Lane
Dancing sailor

John Carlyle
Soldier in canteen

Fred Aldrich
Soldier in canteen

Sam Harris
Canteen worker

Jack Luden
Naval officer

Eugene Sigaloff
Mr. Kabochnick

Lillian Yarbo
Mary, Freddie's cook

Franklin Pangborn
Salesman, scene deleted

Fortunio Bonanova
Telephone man, scene deleted

Sara Berner
Elevator lady, scene deleted

Nelson Leigh
Canadian officer, scene deleted

Martin Garralaga
Brazilian officer, scene deleted

George Sorel
French officer, scene deleted

Phillip Pine
Aide, scene deleted

Harry Tyler
Painter, scene deleted

Anna Q. Nilsson
Switchboard operator, scene deleted

Roland Dupree
Delivery boy, scene deleted

Karin Booth
Woman, scene deleted

Thomas Martin
Nightclub bartender, scene deleted


Chester Erskine
Original Play

Whitfield Cook
Screenplay

Chester Erskine
Screenplay

Sidney Wagner
Director of Photography

Irvine Warburton
Film Editor

Cedric Gibbons
Art Director

Edward C. Carfagno
Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Charles J. Burbridge
Sound Technician

Johnny Green
Musical Score

Irene
Costume Supervision

Kay Carter
Costume Associate

Jack Greenwood
Assistant Director

Warren Newcombe
Special Effects


















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