Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

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
Release dates	December 8, 1944 (1944-12-08)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and based on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.

Primary cast

• Anne Baxter - Tessa
• John Hodiak - Eric Moore
• Charles Winninger - Grandfather
• Anne Revere - Agatha
• Chill Wills - Mr. York
• Robert Bailey - Kenneth Normand
• Bobby Driscoll - Jeep
• Jane Darwell - Mrs. Dobson

Plot

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.

Radio adaptation

On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on Lux Radio Theatre.

References

• "The Screen; Crisis and Romance", The New York Times (January 25, 1945)

External links

• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier at IMDb
• Turner Classic Movies listing