A comedy from 1947. Comic hi-jinks ensue when a pilot back Stateside from duty for a couple of days, William Holden, decides to visit his penpal of a girlfriend, Joan Caulfield, hoping to pop the question before he has to go back. What Holden doesn't know is that Caulfield's sister, Mona Freeman, a rebellious & civic minded sort, wrote the letters (nearly 60) which sends the entire family into a tizzy as Caulfield is already promised to marry her banker boyfriend, Billy de Wolfe, & hopes the next 48 hours will go down smoothly as Caulfield spends time w/Holden but'll let him down gently when the time comes. Coming from the poison pen of Norman Krasna (who also penned the delicious The Devil & Miss Jones), this comedy of errors keeps building & building like the best souffle one has ever tasted w/an ending that some will either embrace or blow off.
