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Dec 28, 2023 · That's the plot, but the fun begins when the American officer learns that a foreigner can only return as their spouse if they are a "war bride". Naturally most of the war brides are women, so one odd circumstance follows another as Carey Grant's character, a French officer, becomes, of necessity, designated as a "war bride". While the plot is ...
Feb 18, 2024 · Ann Sheridan and Cary Grant have charming and fun interactions in this movie based in Germany after World War II. She's vibrant, sassy, and full of character. He's a great combination of sauve and subte. It is a little odd having Cary Grant play a French national.
The long subtitle of Charlier’s book basically outlines the film, making it apparent that he really did have to come in as a “War Bride”. It’s believable that the U.S.Military did not have a written way to deal with a foreign male spouse of a female officer.
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Español (México) I Was a Male War Bride (1949) Approved | Comedy, Romance, War. Watch options.
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I Was a Male War Bride. 1949. 1 hr 45 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. French Captain Henri Rochard and American Lieutenant Catherine Gates fall in love while working on a mission in post WWII Germany ...
Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.
I Was a Male War Bride is one of Hawks's later comedies, an enjoyable battle of the sexes farce in which a hapless Cary Grant suffers no end of humiliations when he tries to get the better of Ann Sheridan and US military bureaucracy. The film was inspired by a true (but hard to believe) story that appeared in the Readers' Digest.
