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I Was a Male War Bride
Theatrical poster
Directed byHoward Hawks
Screenplay byCharles Lederer
Leonard Spigelgass
Hagar Wilde
Based on"Male War Bride Trial to Army"
Baltimore Sun 1947
by Henri Rochard[1]
Produced bySol C. Siegel
StarringCary Grant
Ann Sheridan
Marion Marshall
CinematographyOsmond Borradaile
Norbert Brodine
Edited byJames B. Clark
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • August 19, 1949 (1949-08-19) (Los Angeles, premiere)
Running time
105 minutes
LanguageEnglish
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.[4]

The film is about French Army officer Henri Rochard (Grant) who must pass as a war bride in order to go back to the United States with Women's Army Corps officer Catherine Gates (Sheridan).

  1. ^ "I Was a Male War Bride (1949) - Notes". TCM. 2010. Retrieved 2017-11-15. BROKEN LINK
  2. ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 69
  3. ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.
  4. ^ "I Was a Male War Bride". Tcm.turner.com. Retrieved 2009-07-03.

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