Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
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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.
Cast
- Anne Baxter as Tessa
- John Hodiak as Eric Moore
- Charles Winninger as Grandfather
- Anne Revere as Agatha
- Chill Wills as Mr. York
- Robert Bailey as Kenneth Normand
- Bobby Driscoll as Jeep
- Jane Darwell as 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
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- "The Screen; Crisis and Romance", The New York Times (January 25, 1945)
External links
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- Turner Classic Movies listing
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- 1944 films
- 1940s war drama films
- 20th Century Fox films
- American war drama films
- American black-and-white films
- Films scored by Alfred Newman
- Films based on short fiction
- Films directed by Lloyd Bacon
- Films set in Florida
- Films set on the United States home front during World War II
- World War II films made in wartime
- Films with screenplays by Wanda Tuchock
- 1944 drama films
- 1940s English-language films
- English-language war drama films