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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
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Wikipedia article
'Sunday Dinner for a Soldier' is a 1944 American drama romance war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak. It is based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.
Plot
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan a Sunday dinner for a soldier at a local Army airbase. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him (Hodiak) and Tessa (Baxter), the young woman who runs the home.
Primary cast
*Anne Baxter - Tessa
*John Hodiak - Eric Moore
*Charles Winninger - Grandfather
*Anne Revere - Agatha
*Chill Wills - Mr. York
*Robert Bailey - Kenneth Normand
*Bobby Driscoll - Jeep
*Jane Darwell - Mrs. Dobson
Radio adaptation
On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on 'Lux Radio Theatre'.
References
*"The Screen; Crisis and Romance", 'The New York Times' (January 25, 1945)
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