Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

1944 film by Lloyd Bacon

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Written by	Martha Cheavens (story) Melvin Levy Wanda Tuchock
Produced by	Walter Morosco
Starring	Anne Baxter John Hodiak
Cinematography	Joseph MacDonald
Edited by	J. Watson Webb Jr.
Music by	Alfred Newman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 8, 1944 (1944-12-08)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2 million

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 American drama romance war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak. It is based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.

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.

Cast

Anne Baxter as Tessa
John Hodiak as Eric Moore
Charles Winninger as Grandfather
Anne Revere as Agatha
Chill Wills as Mr. York
Robert Bailey as Kenneth Normand
Bobby Driscoll as Jeep
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Dobson

Radio adaptation

On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theatre.

References

Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 220

"The Screen; Crisis and Romance", The New York Times (January 25, 1945)

External links

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