Sunday Dinner for a Soldier | |
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Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
Produced by | Walter Morosco |
Written by |
Martha Cheavens (story) Melvin Levy Wanda Tuchock |
Starring |
Anne Baxter John Hodiak |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
Edited by | J. Watson Webb Jr. |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2 million |
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.
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.
On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theatre.