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Box office. $4.1 million (US/ Canada rentals) [2] [3] I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan . The film was based on "Male War Bride Trial to Army", a biography of Henri Rochard ( pen name of Roger Charlier ), a Belgian who married an American nurse.
May 11, 2014 · The real Henri Rochard was a native of Antwerp, Belgium. A broadly educated man, he had planned to be a college professor. But he was called into service as an anti-aircraft artillery officer when the Axis Powers invaded the Low Countries. He served until the surrender of ex-King Leopold, then joined the underground resistance. * He was a POW ...
Roger Henri Louise Lievin Constance Charlier (10 November 1921, Antwerp, Belgium – 16 September 2018, Etterbeek, Belgium) was a Belgian resistance fighter, member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials, and oceanographer. His marriage to American Captain Marie Helen Glennon and administrative difficulties regarding his residency in ...
Henry Rochard (Cary Grant) is a captain in the French army who is forced to work with the combative but beautiful U.S. Army Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan). While on assignment in ...
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Sep 2, 2021 · Summary: Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) of France is assigned to work with First Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) of the U.S. Army. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Rochard tries to return to America, like female war brides could under the auspices of America's 1945 War Brides ...
I Was a Male War Bride: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart. After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Planning to leave the continent and settle down in the U.S., the couple hits a roadblock of red tape and Grant must cross-dress in order to accompany his bride on the troop ship taking her home. Worth watching for Grant's performance alone. Based on the novel by Henri Rochard. 105m/B VHS, DVD .
