1949
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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.
Dear Ruth: Directed by William D. Russell. With Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold. A family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail.
- (715)
- Comedy, Romance
- William D. Russell
- 1947-06-10
William Holden plays a soldier who falls in love with a woman he met through a pen pal service. However, she has no memory of him and is already engaged to another man.
- William D. Russell, Oscar Rudolph
- Joan Caulfield
Lt. William Seacroft (William Holden), on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins (Joan Caulfield), with whom he has been corresponding.
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- William D. Russell
- Comedy
- Joan Caulfield
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.
Dear Ruth is a successful 1944 Broadway play written by Norman Krasna. It ran for 680 performances. History. Krasna wrote a serious play, The Man with Blond Hair, which received a tepid response.
A comedy about a soldier who comes to marry his pen pal, but finds out she is not who he thinks she is. His fiancée is her sister, who used her picture and name to boost morale during the war.
