I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

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   Siskoid

   A post-war romcom that manages to be a lot of fun, I Was a Male War Bride (I keep wanting to write/read/say I Was a Mail Order Bride, but that's a whole other thing) matches spirited no-nonsense Ann Sheridan with a very grumbly, supposedly French (haha) Cary Grant soon to pull out of Occupied Germany. They have a history that sells the idea that these two could get together despite the bickering, and most of the movie is about their last mission together. Your basic romcom situation where the characters hate each other, she him because he's been handsy in the past, him her because she's a bit of a jinx and he keeps being humiliated through some comic consequence or other. It's fun, and it doesn't stop once they get married and U.S. Army bureaucracy creates all sorts of absurd complications because the system was just never designed for service WOMEN. Maybe she SHOULD have mail-ordered him after all. Grant plays the punching bag admirably, and Sheridan is (and has) a lot of fun too. 3 years 10 months ago
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   baraka92

   It takes a while to get to the title situation but the chemistry between Grant and Sheridan is lovely from the get go. Not one of Hawks‘ best comedies but it’s still worthwhile. 3 years 11 months ago

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