"I was a male war bride" (movie)

[Anita]

I've seen this title many times, and never really paid attention to what it was about. It seemed like another post-war comedy that might have been funny to my parents at the time, but wasn't my speed.

Tonight I was doing research on actresses that were femme fatales in 1946 (a song lyric sent me on that search), and I came across Cary Grant's role in this film--he played a French army officer who had to impersonate an American army nurse to get on the ship with his bride-to-be.

I went to Google images, and Grant's 'gal' character was no Tony Curtis (Some Like it Hot)--they deliberately left him plain-looking and very male. Grant makes Jack Lemmon look like RuPaul. I'd never heard this particular role mentioned on here, or any other TG site, and maybe it's because it's not very convincing!

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I couldn't find a section on posting picture links in the rules, only articles. If picture links aren't allowed, then delete this one.

Click on Google images for the movie, and see for yourself.

[Carolynn]

Darnit!!! I remember seeing that one in the movie theater in Apache, OK,......with my parents!!! Does that make me an old broad or what??? I wonder why I can remember it so well. One scene in particular, they needed long hair so a horses tail sacrificed long hair an it was tied at one end with a ribbon and draped over his head. It was quite warm, and he took off his hat to fan himself, exposing the ribbon.....

[Anita]

Yeah, like taking off "her" hat was the only give-away! That was a fun movie, what little I saw of it. While viewing those clips, I also viewed some montages of famous movie crossdressing roles, which took my breath away. The only one I remember seeing growing up was Some Like it Hot, and I know that I liked the movie. I just don't remember how it affected me; I was maybe 8 at the time. I don't remember ANY CD movies from the 6Os or 70s, although I know they must have been out there. Mrs. Doubtfire, Tootsie, Priscilla, and Wong-Fu all came in the 80s or 90s. And those were the movies that the montage sampled, along with Breakfast on Pluto and The Crying Game. Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis were the only black-and-white images I saw.

[Anthony Simon]

I saw the film when I when I was young. It never struck me as a CDing movie mainly 'cos (like Anita says) he was always a man in drag. Actually it always made me feel a kind of pain for the character and what he was made to go through. There's another Cary Grant film with the same director Bringing Up Baby in which the character he plays there (who's a kind of wimp) is made to go through it as well. Actually, offhand, I think he's made to wear Katherine Hepburn's robe - so there's some sort of connection there (if my memory's right).

The one film CDing thing I remember from my youth is a scene where Jerry Lewis has to pretend to be his "sister" (not sure of the actual movie). He strips down (again as I remember it) to a corselette with oranges for boobs. This is probably where my obsession with corselettes comes from. After that I always wanted one.