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A Letter for Evie: Directed by Jules Dassin. With Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Spring Byington. An oafish soldier receives a shirt but disregards the letter inside sent by a lovelorn secretary, prompting his bumbling friend to impersonate him in order to win her heart.
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- Comedy, Romance, War
- Jules Dassin
- 1946-01-28
A Letter for Evie. A Letter for Evie is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Marsha Hunt, John Carroll and Hume Cronyn. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The story is a spinoff of Cyrano de Bergerac, updated to a modern setting.
- William H. Wright
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A Letter for Evie. During World War II, Evie O'Connor (Marsha Hunt) works as a secretary at Trojan Shirt Company and yearns for a tall, strong man to love her. When she slides an anonymous note ...
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- Marsha Hunt
- Jules Dassin
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
New York premiere: 27 Jun 1946. Production Company. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. Distribution Company. Loew's Inc. Country. United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the short story "The Adventure of a Ready Letter Writer" by Blanche Brace in The Saturday Evening Post (13 Nov 1920).
- Jules Dassin, Julian Silberstein
- Marsha Hunt
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A Letter for Evie is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Marsha Hunt, John Carroll and Hume Cronyn. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The story is a spinoff of Cyrano de Bergerac, updated to a modern setting.
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a ...