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{{Infobox film

| name = Tender Comrade

| image = TenderComrade.jpg

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| caption = Theatrical poster

| director = Edward Dmytryk

| producer = David Hempstead

| writer = Dalton Trumbo

| starring = Ginger Rogers
Robert Ryan
Ruth Hussey
Kim Hunter
Patricia Collinge
Mady Christians

| music = Leigh Harline

| cinematography = Russell Metty

| editing = Roland Gross

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released =

| runtime = 101 minutes (copyright print)

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

'Tender Comrade' is a 1943 black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are away at war.

The film stars Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, and Kim Hunter and was directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was later used by the HUAC as evidence of Dalton Trumbo spreading communist propaganda. Trumbo was subsequently blacklisted.

The film's title comes from a line in Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "My Wife" first published in 'Songs of Travel and Other Verses' (1896).

Plot



Jo Jones works in an airplane factory and longs for the day when she will see her husband again. The couple have a heart wrenching farewell at the train station before he leaves for overseas duty in the war. With their husbands off fighting in World War II, Jo and her co-workers struggle to pay living expenses. Dissatisfied, they decide to pool their money and rent a house together. Soon after which they hire a German immigrant housekeeper, Manya. Jo discovers she is pregnant and ends up having a son whom she names Chris, after his father. The women are overjoyed when Doris's husband comes home, but the same day Jo receives a telegram informing her that her husband has been killed. She hides her grief and descends the stairs in order to rejoin the homecoming celebration.

Cast



* Ginger Rogers as Jo Jones

* Robert Ryan as Chris Jones

* Ruth Hussey as Barbara Thomas

* Patricia Collinge as Helen Stacey

* Mady Christians as Manya Lodge

* Kim Hunter as Doris Dumbrowski

* Jane Darwell as Mrs. Henderson

* Richard Martin as Mike Dumbrowski

Reception



The film made a profit of $843,000.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, 'The RKO Story.' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p190

References




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