2h | Drama, Romance, War, Fantasy | 24 December 1943
Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035959/
Although this is not a musical, ID sings I'll Get By a few times to ST in one scene, and this becomes his leitmotif.
2nd film for Esther Williams. In her next one, she begins her decade+ reign as water ballet queen. Here she plays a USO-style hostess spending a small amount of time with Van Johnson, in a scene dominated (in the writing and the performance) by Charles Smith as Sanderson.
ID plays a pilot in the Ferrying Command. Very much the lipstick feminist (she liked wearing girly clothes for the first time in long while.)
The primary message here is that when your loved one dies, you need to move on.
The message is wrapped in a lovely fantasy, and delivered by gloriously good actors (ST, ID) with terrific support (JG, WB, VJ).
MGM, dir. Fleming; 8
