The Sailor Takes a Wife
A sailor and USO hostess marry hastily in NYC before his deployment. When he's suddenly discharged as 4-F, the newlyweds must start their life together sooner than planned, discovering they barely know each other.
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"It's 1944. US sailor John Hill (Robert Walker) has a whirlwind romance with Mary (June Allyson) and they get a quickie marriage. He expects to ship out, but he gets reclassified as medically unfit for duty due to a minor issue. The couple finds themselves strangers rushed into a married life together. Lisa Borescu (Audrey Totter) is their hot new neighbor. Harry (Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson) is the building super. Mary's family friend Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn) had hoped to propose to Mary himself. I like the couple. Walker and Allyson do fine together. Despite their confl..."
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In two other films, Since You Went Away (1944) and The Clock (1945), Robert Walker also played an enlisted man who meets a girl and quickly falls in love with her. The three films were released with 18 months of one another.
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A sailor and USO hostess marry hastily in NYC before his deployment. When he's suddenly discharged as 4-F, the newlyweds must start their life together sooner than planned, discovering they barely know each other.