G.I. Jane (1951 film)

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G.I. Jane
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Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Written by Henry Blankfort (as Jan Jeffries)
Murray Lerner (story)
Produced byMurray Lerner
Starring Jean Porter
Tom Neal
Iris Adrian
Jimmie Dodd
Bobby Watson
Cinematography Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by William Austin
Music by Walter Greene
Production
company
Murray Productions
Distributed by Lippert Pictures
Release date
  • April 29, 1951 (1951-04-29)
Running time
69 minutes
Country United States
Language English

G.I. Jane is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Reginald Le Borg and released by Lippert Pictures.

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Plot

Television producer Tim Rawlings is staging a musical show with the Women's Army Corps (WAC) when he is drafted into the army. Sgt. Rawlings tangles with an angry male lieutenant who transfers him to Alaska, where the commanding officer has requisitioned a platoon of WACs. Rawlings furtively modifies the travel orders so that the lieutenant is sent to Alaska and the WACs are dispatched to his own post in the American desert. The no-nonsense WAC lieutenant forbids her WACs to fraternize with the male soldiers, so the blossoming romances among the troops must be kept secret.

Background

Accused communist screenwriter Henry Blankfort, who refused to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, wrote G. I. Jane under the pseudonym of Jan Jeffries to conceal his true identity. [1]

Reception

Critic Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "offers some pleasing numbers". [2]

Reviewer William Brogdon of Variety wrote: "This is a pleasant, unpretentious musical programmer that will fit nicely into lower-case bookings in the secondary situations. Pace is okay, the tunes well handled and there are enough mild chuckles in its comedy to see it through release intentions." [3]

Cast

Notes

  1. Wheeler W. Dixon, The Films of Reginald LeBorg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography, Scarecrow Press, 1992, p. 146. ISBN   0-8108-2550-3
  2. Schallert, Edwin (September 13, 1951). "'Little Egypt' Shows How Cooch Dance Won at Fair". Los Angeles Times . p. 10, Part II.
  3. Brogdon, William (August 8, 1951). "G. I. Jane". Variety . 183 (9): 18.