Joan Caulfield
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Dear Ruth is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe and Edward Arnold. It was based on the 1944 Broadway play of the same name by Norman Krasna. The film's plot concerns a teenage girl who uses her older sister's identity to communicate with a soldier pen pal.
A soldier falls in love with a pen pal he has never met, but his fiancée's sister is the one who wrote the letters. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, and read user and critic reviews of this 1947 film directed by William D. Russell.
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- Comedy, Romance
- William D. Russell
- 1947-06-10
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1947 comedy film Dear Ruth, directed by William D. Russell and written by Arthur Sheekman and Norman Krasna. See the full list of actors, actresses, producers, composers, cinematographers and more.
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A comedy about a soldier who comes to marry his pen pal, but finds out she is not who he thinks she is. His fiancée is her sister, who used her picture and name to boost morale during the war.
William Holden plays a soldier who falls in love with a woman he met through a pen pal service. However, she has no memory of him and is already engaged to another man.
- William D. Russell, Oscar Rudolph
- Joan Caulfield
Dear Ruth. Lt. William Seacroft (William Holden), on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins (Joan Caulfield), with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to...
- Comedy
Overview. Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale.
