Dear Ruth (1947)
- Starring:
- Joan Caulfield, William Holden, (more)
- Director(s):
- William D. Russell
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Adapted from the popular stage play of the same name, Dear Ruth features Mona Freeman as teenaged Miriam Watkins, who can't keep her nose out of other people's affairs. Fired up by patriotism, Miriam inaugurates a warm pen-pal relationship with an overseas air force officer (William Holden), hinting at a future marriage. When the airman arrives in town, he insists upon seeing Miriam's older sister Ruth (Joan Caulfield). It seems that Miriam, in an effort to appear older, signed her letters with her sister's name, and even enclosed her sister's picture. Ruth, however, is engaged to her nerdish employer (Billy DeWolfe), and it isn't hard to imagine the plot convolutions that ensue from this set-up. Dear Ruth was written by Norman Krasna, who based the Watkins household on the family of his old friend Groucho Marx (whose first wife's name was Ruth). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Joan Caulfield - Ruth Wilkins
- Edward Arnold - Judge Harry Wilkins
- Mona Freeman - Miriam Wilkins
- Kenny O'Morrison - Sgt. Chuck Vincent
- Marietta Canty - Dora, the Maid
- Erno Verebes - Headwaiter
- Jimmie Dundee - Harold Klobber-Meyer
- William Holden - Lt. William Seacroft
- Mary Philips - Edith Wilkins
- Billy De Wolfe - Albert Kummer
- Virginia Welles - Martha Seacroft
- Irving Bacon - Delivery man
- Isabel Randolph - Mrs. Teaker
- Jay Gerard - Cab driver
- Director(s):
- William D. Russell
- Writer(s):
- Arthur Sheekman
- Producer(s):
- Paul Jones
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