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Dear Ruth(Movie, 1947)

1h 35min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love
Dear RuthRating: 3.8/5 (with 33 votes)
Dear Ruth is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Billy de Wolfe and Edward Arnold. It was based on the 1944 Broadway play of the same name by Norman Krasna. The film's plot concerns a teenage girl who uses her older sister's identity to communicate with a soldier pen pal. Two sequels to Dear Ruth were later produced: Dear Wife (1949), with all of the principal actors reprising their roles, and Dear Brat (1951), featuring Freeman, Arnold and De Wolfe. Despite the popular belief that J. D. Salinger based the name of his character Holden Caulfield, who appears in The Catcher in the Rye and other works, on a marquee for the film showing the last names of the film's two leads, the first Holden Caulfield story, "I'm Crazy", was published... ()
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Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: New York
Based on: "Dear Ruth" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/10/1947
Producer: Paul Jones
Screenwriter: Arthur Sheekman
Film Editor: Archie Marshek
Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo
Composer: Robert E. Dolan
Keywords: military leave, army
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:82851, Added: 03/17/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024