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Director:
Writer:
Dalton Trumbo (written by)
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Release Date:
June 1944 (USA) more
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Plot:
Ginger Rogers, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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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
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min (copyright length) | 101 min (Turner library print)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #9586) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

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Trivia:
Although there was a Los Angeles premiere on December 19, 1943 to make the film eligible for the 1943 Academy Awards - particularly Ginger Rogers' performance, which would fail to be nominated - the movie was not released nationally until June 1944. After the Los Angeles opening, new footage which altered the ending was shot between January 7 and 9 and then on January 20, 1944. more
Quotes:
Chris Jones: Y'know, I've been thinking...
Jo Jones: There you go exaggerating again!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "The Century" (1999) more
Soundtrack:
When Johnny Comes Marching Home more

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15 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
One of a kind, 20 March 2006
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Author: spost8260 from San Pablo, CA

"Tender Comrade" was the only film made during the second world war showing what it was like to be a war bride. It just about covers every detail of home life during this time period, such as rationing booklets, war plant jobs, friendships, worries, "not to talk about troop movements" in public and everything a war bride had to deal with. I'm sure one cam complain about dialog, scripts, camera angles, etcetera, but life wasn't perfect and this film recreates life during a time when "politically incorrect" was not mandatory. People actually talked like that then. They dressed like that, lived like that. This film is as close to factual representation of a war bride as anyone ever got and I, for one, am thankful it was filmed and still lives on. Everyone seems to remember the soldier, but not so much about what their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters had to endure while being left behind to wait for their return. Thank you, Mr. Dymytryk.

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