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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
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Albert Beich (screenplay)
Albert Beich (story)
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11 January 1956 (USA) more
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Good fun more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tom Ewell | ... | Gregory Whitcomb |
| Sheree North | ... | Lt. Katy Whitcomb |
 | Rita Moreno | ... | Sandra Roberts |
| Rick Jason | ... | Capt. Barney Sloan |
| Les Tremayne | ... | Henry 'Hank' Gaxton |
| Alice Reinheart | ... | Capt. Grace Briggs |
| Gregory Walcott | ... | Lt. Sweeney |
| Jean Willes | ... | Joan Sweeney |
 | Edward Platt | ... | Major Dunning - Psychiatrist |
| Jacqueline Fontaine | ... | Buxom Blonde at Party |
| Michael Ross | ... | Military Policeman |
| Arthur Q. Bryan | ... | Mr. Curtis |
| Keith Vincent | ... | Delivery boy |
| Janice Carroll | ... | WAAF sergeant |
| Ralph Sanford | ... | Gateman |
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I Lost My Wife to the Army (USA) (working title)
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99 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Recording) (magnetic prints) | Mono (optical prints)
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References The Seven Year Itch (1955) more
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Something's Gotta Give more
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Long overshadowed by director Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (also 1956), The Lieutenant Wore Skirts is deserving of reappraisal. Starring hatchet faced Tom Ewell as Greg Whitcomb, a U.S. Air Force reservist with a bad knee and a wife (Sheree North) in the service, it's a thoroughly sexist but hilarious film. When North is ordered to serve in Hawaii, Ewell follows after her, determined to get her to quit or be discharged by hook or by crook. Forced to stay home cleaning dishes, cooking dinner, and playing bridge with the girls, he soon cooks up a plot to convince base psychiatrist Edward Platt that his wife is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Shot in brilliant Technicolor and in Cinemascope, this is 50s cinema eye candy par excellence, but the film also benefits from a snappy (and at times, quite daring) Tashlin screenplay. Besides the always wonderful Ewell, the film also features an hilarious performance by Rita Moreno as an air-headed beauty who gives him ideas.