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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.
Dear Ruth: Directed by William D. Russell. With Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold. A family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail.
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- Comedy, Romance
- William D. Russell
- 1947-06-10
Jul 13, 2023 · 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...
- 95 min
- 2049
- Retro Movies
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In 1944 in a suburb of New York City, Miriam Wilkins, a precocious sixteen-year-old, contributes to the war effort by writing the Secretary of War urging him to include women in the draft, protesting the State Department's French policy by wearing a beret, signing up her parents to donate blood, and writing to American soldiers overseas.
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
A bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Lt. William Seacroft has flown from Italy on a two-day leave to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. He pops in on the Wilkins family. But he's a surprise to Ruth's parents, and to Ruth (who just said "Yes!" to wed her childhood sweetheart, Albert).
