The Sailor Takes a Wife

The Sailor Takes a Wife
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Whorf
Written by	Anne Morrison Chapin Whitfield Cook
Based on	play Happily Ever After by Chester Erskine
Produced by	Edwin H. Knopf
Starring	Robert Walker June Allyson
Cinematography	Sidney Wagner
Edited by	Irvine Warburton
Music by	Johnny Green
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	February 28, 1946 (1946-02-28) (New York City, premiere)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,012,000[1]
Box office	$2,559,000[1]

The Sailor Takes a Wife is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Robert Walker and June Allyson.

Plot

During World War II, a sailor in New York City who is about to be shipped out to Europe marries a woman he has just met. Then he unexpectedly receives a medical discharge.

Cast

• Robert Walker as John Hill
• June Allyson as Mary Hill
• Hume Cronyn as Freddie Potts
• Audrey Totter as Lisa Borescu
• Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Harry
• Reginald Owen as Mr. Amboy
• Gerald Oliver Smith as Gerald

Reception

According to MGM records, the film earned $2,269,000 in the US and Canada and $290,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $683,000.[1][2]

References

1. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
2. Another source says $2.5 million in US rentals "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8

External links

• The Sailor Takes a Wife at IMDb
• The Sailor Takes a Wife at the TCM Movie Database
• Review of film at Variety