Komedie / romantický, USA, 1947, 95 min.



In 1944 in a suburb of New York City, Miriam Wilkins, a precocious sixteen-year-old, contributes to the war effort by writing the Secretary of War urging him to include women in the draft, protesting the State Department's French policy by wearing a beret, signing up her parents to donate blood, and writing to American soldiers overseas. One day, a young lieutenant named William Seacroft arrives at the Wilkins' home while on a two-day leave from the Italian front and asks to see Miriam's twenty-two-year-old sister Ruth, with whom he has been exchanging love letters. Bill excitedly introduces himself to Ruth's parents, Harry and Edith, who have never heard of him. Although they do not tell Bill, Ruth is in love with Albert Kummer, a thirty-four-year-old slacker who works with her at the town bank. Bill explains that, although he fears flying, Ruth inspired him to become a bombardier because after twenty-five missions, a flyer is guaranteed leave. Harry and Edie invite Bill to dinner that night, but Ruth returns home after work and announces that she and Albert are engaged. Miriam then confesses that she sent Bill Ruth's picture and wrote him sixty letters and poems as part of a campaign to keep up soldiers' morale. When Bill returns to finally meet Ruth, she can see that he thinks he is in love with her, and agrees to pretend that she wrote the letters in order to spare his feelings. Albert, enraged, spends the evening with Harry and Edie waiting for Ruth, who goes out with Bill and does not come home until after one o'clock in the morning. Touched by Bill's innocent charm, Ruth asks Miriam for his letters and discovers a sweet idealism. The next morning, Bill sends Ruth a houseful of lilacs, as well as two hundred boxes of candy corn, which Miriam had mentioned in the letters as her favorite treats. Bill's sister Martha then arrives from Philadelphia to see her brother, and asks when Bill and Ruth are going to marry. When Bill arrives and boldly kisses Ruth in front of Albert and the family, she insists that Albert and Martha join them on a subway ride to avoid being alone with him. While they are out, Bill's sergeant, Chuck Vincent, to whom Martha had been engaged, arrives. Meanwhile, Martha causes Albert to miss the subway train so that Bill can be alone with Ruth to propose, and he is arrested for jumping a turnstyle. When he arrives back at the Wilkins', he is furious, and when the others return for lunch, Bill announces that he and Ruth are to be married. He then learns that he and Chuck will be stationed in Florida, thus allowing them both to marry immediately. Chuck and Martha are reconciled, and the judge agrees to marry them that afternoon. Finally, Ruth tells Bill that she only agreed to marry him to spare his feelings, and he realizes she is engaged to Albert. Miriam later apologizes to Bill, and when he realizes that it was she who wrote to him, is overwhelmed by Ruth's kindness. Bill leaves to make travel arrangements for himself and Chuck and Martha. When he returns, he good-naturedly toasts Albert and Ruth and, telling her he knows that Miriam wrote the letters, says good-bye. While Albert is upstairs scheduling the church for his wedding, Harry tells Ruth that he put money on her running off with Bill, and she realizes she is in love with him. Bill then returns because he gave Harry his ticket instead of Chuck and Martha's, and Ruth tells him she has always wanted to see Florida. Hoping Ruth would change her mind, Harry had prepared two marriage licenses, and quickly marries and whisks them out the back door before Albert gets off the phone.
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