I Was a Male War Bride
1949 film by Howard Hawks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan.
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Directed by | Howard Hawks |
Screenplay by | Charles Lederer Leonard Spigelgass Hagar Wilde |
Based on | "Male War Bride Trial to Army" Baltimore Sun 1947 by Henri Rochard[1] |
Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
Starring | Cary Grant Ann Sheridan Marion Marshall |
Cinematography | Osmond Borradaile Norbert Brodine |
Edited by | James B. Clark |
Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Language | English |
Box office | $4.1 million (US/ Canada rentals) [2][3] |
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The film was based on "Male War Bride Trial to Army", a biography of Henri Rochard (pen name of Roger Charlier), a Belgian who married an American nurse.[4]
The film is about French Army officer Henri Rochard (Grant) who must pass as a war bride in order to go back to the United States with Women's Army Corps officer Catherine Gates (Sheridan).