Tender Comrade (1943)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Edward Dmytryk

Writer:

Dalton Trumbo (written by)

Release Date:

June 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Ginger Rogers, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares...

Plot Keywords:

Patriotism | Infidelity | Aircraft Factory | Neglected Wife | Pregnant Wife

Cast

Ginger Rogers	...	Jo Jones
Robert Ryan	...	Chris Jones
Ruth Hussey	...	Barbara Thomas
Patricia Collinge	...	Helen Stacey
Mady Christians	...	Manya Lodge
Kim Hunter	...	Doris Dumbrowski
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Henderson
Richard Martin	...	Mike Dumbrowski

Runtime:

102 min (copyright length) | 101 min (Turner library print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #9586) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

Trivia:

Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any): Donald Davis (Boy), Robert Anderson (Boy), Jane Farrar, Tom Burton, Mike Road and Freddie Mercer.

Quotes:

Jo Jones: We're running this house like a democracy!
Manya Lodge: Once, in Germany, we had a democracy. But...
Helen Stacey: But you lost it?
Manya Lodge: No, we didn't lose it. We let it be murdered - like a little child.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Century" (1999)

Soundtrack:

Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550

Army wife

So many wives went through same as Ginger Rogers in film. (Husband died in war) She was such a great dramatic actress as well as a dancer. She showed such courage, alone with a baby. he was a role model for me alone with children. (I met the man who played her husband in film, Robert Ryan. In real life he was very courageous in his illness and losses.)