The Sailor Takes a Wife

1946 film by Richard Whorf
  • Anne Morrison Chapin
  • Whitfield Cook
Based onplay Happily Ever After
by Chester ErskineProduced byEdwin H. KnopfStarring
  • Robert Walker
  • June Allyson
CinematographySidney WagnerEdited byIrvine WarburtonMusic byJohnny GreenDistributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • February 28, 1946 (1946-02-28) (New York City, premiere)
CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$1,012,000[1]Box office$2,559,000[1]

The Sailor Takes a Wife is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Robert Walker and June Allyson.

Plot

During World War II, a sailor in New York City who is about to be shipped out to Europe marries a woman he has just met. Then he unexpectedly receives a medical discharge.

Cast

  • Robert Walker as John Hill
  • June Allyson as Mary Hill
  • Hume Cronyn as Freddie Potts
  • Audrey Totter as Lisa Borescu
  • Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Harry
  • Reginald Owen as Mr. Amboy
  • Gerald Oliver Smith as Gerald

Reception

According to MGM records, the film earned $2,269,000 in the US and Canada and $290,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $683,000.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Another source says $2.5 million in US rentals "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8

External links

  • The Sailor Takes a Wife at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • The Sailor Takes a Wife at the TCM Movie Database
  • Review of film at Variety


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