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John Loves Mary
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Casts & Crew
Ronald Reagan
Patricia Neal
Jack Carson
Edward Arnold
Wayne Morris
Virginia Field
Katharine Alexander
Paul Harvey
Ernest Cossart
Irving Bacon
Bess Flowers
Also Directed by David Butler
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A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.