Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
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Director Lloyd Bacon Producer Walter Morosco Duration Language English | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Cinematography Joseph MacDonald Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 8, 1944 (1944-12-08) Writer Martha Cheavens (story), Melvin Levy, Wanda Tuchock Cast Anne Baxter (Tessa Osborne), John Hodiak (Sgt. Eric Moore), Charles Winninger (Dudley 'Granfeathers' Osborne), Charles Winninger (Agatha Butterfield), Connie Marshall (Mary Osborne), Chill Wills (Mr. York)Similar movies Related Lloyd Bacon movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.
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Primary cast
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.
Radio adaptation
On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theatre.
References
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier IMDb Sunday Dinner for a Soldier themoviedb.org