{"id":6761,"date":"2011-10-20T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:20:56","slug":"i-was-a-male-war-bride-1949-howard-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6761","title":{"rendered":"I Was a Male War Bride (1949, Howard Hawks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like two short films &#8211; a classic courtship comedy and a gender-politics comedy, with a wedding in the middle.  In the first half, Cary Grant is reluctantly stuck with Ann Sheridan (of <em>They Drive By Night<\/em> &#038; <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7169\">Good Sam<\/a><\/em>) on a softball military mission in France, his last before retirement from the armed services.  In the second, he&#8217;s Ann&#8217;s &#8220;war bride,&#8221; a civilian married to a &#8220;serviceman,&#8221; a loophole in the system, dealing with paperwork and regulations in attempts to stay (or better, sleep) with his new wife.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, funny movie &#8211; Katy and I liked it.  Based on a true story by Henri Rochard (the name of Grant&#8217;s character).  Senses of Cinema has a write-up, but the very first sentence declares the difficulty to adequately situate the film within &#8220;accepted interpretative frameworks,&#8221; so I didn&#8217;t make it much further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like two short films &#8211; a classic courtship comedy and a gender-politics comedy, with a wedding in the middle. In the first half, Cary Grant is reluctantly stuck with Ann Sheridan (of They Drive By Night &#038; Good Sam) on a softball military mission in France, his last before retirement from the armed services. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,73,103],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-cary-grant","tag-howard-hawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10289,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}