Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.
Primary cast
- Anne Baxter - Tessa
- John Hodiak - Eric Moore
- Charles Winninger - Grandfather
- Anne Revere - Agatha
- Chill Wills - Mr. York
- Robert Bailey - Kenneth Normand
- Bobby Driscoll - Jeep
- Jane Darwell - Mrs. Dobson
Plot
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan a Sunday dinner for a soldier at a local Army airbase. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him (Hodiak) and Tessa (Baxter), the young woman who runs the home.
Radio adaptation
On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theatre.
References
- "The Screen; Crisis and Romance", The New York Times (January 25, 1945)
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sunday Dinner for a Soldier at IMDb
- Turner Classic Movies listing
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