''I Love a Soldier'' is a 1944 American

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directed by Mark Sandrich and written by Allan Scott. The film stars

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and

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. The film was released on August 15, 1944, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

Cast

as Evelyn Connors *

as Dan Kilgore *

as Etta Lane *

as Sgt. Lionel 'Stiff' Banks *

as Cecilia 'Cissy' Grant *

as Jenny Butler * Marie McDonald as Gracie * James Bell as Williams * Barry Fitzgerald as Murphy

Reception

T.M.P. of ''

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'' said, "To the wheel of life has been given a full, mad twirl in ''I Love a Soldier'', which took up residence yesterday at the Paramount. And since life seldom moves along on a plane, maybe it would have been expecting too much for this particular film to maintain a perfect level. But the ups and downs and the fancy curves which the story takes in discussing the problem of war marriages neither makes for an arresting entertainment nor does it help to clarify a question that is of vital importance right now to a good many young people. Apparently both Mark Sandrich, the producer-director, and Allan Scott, the author, weren't quite sure either just how the subject should be treated, for they tackle it, by turns, in dead seriousness and with broad comic strokes."

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