G.I. Jane (1951 film)

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G.I. Jane
G. I. Jane, 1950 film comedy.jpg
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. [1]

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Plot

Television producer Tim Rawlings is staging a musical show with the Women's Army Corps (WACs) when he is drafted into the army. Sgt. Rawlings tangles with an angry lieutenant who transfers him to Alaska, where the commanding officer has requisitioned a platoon of WACs. Rawlings furtively tampers with the travel orders so the lieutenant goes to Alaska, and the WACs go 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 carried on in secret. [2]

Reception

Variety greeted G.I. Jane for what it was: "This is a pleasant, unpretentious musical programmer that will fit nicely into lower-case bookings in the secondary situations... Eight tunes are spotted and are better than would be expected in such a budget offering." [3] The Los Angeles Times said it "offers some pleasing numbers". [4] Boxoffice reported that the film was topical and "well qualified to deliver a diverting hour of entertainment... the picture's musical moments are exceptionally praiseworthy as they are filled by nothing but catchy new songs written expressly for the film." [5]

Cast

Background

Producer Robert L. Lippert was a former exhibitor who felt there was a national market for low-priced feature films that other exhibitors could afford to show. Beginning in 1945 he began making his own movies, and by the late 1940s he was firmly established as an independent producer. Other studios had cut back on their low-budget productions, leaving dozens of actors underemployed. Lippert took advantage of their availability by signing up "name" talent for flat fees, giving his films more marquee value. Most of the G. I. Jane cast members were veterans of other companies. [6] The production looks “cheap and hurried in every respect.” [7]

G. I. Jane serves largely as a venue for a number of songs provided by seven writers; among these were Jimmie Dodd, who later appeared on TV’s The Mickey Mouse Club. [8]

Screenwriter Henry Blankfort was then blacklisted from working in pictures during the McCarthy-era anti-Communist hearings. Blankfort wrote G. I. Jane under a pseudonym, Jan Jeffries. [9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Dixon, 1992 p. 149: Directorial Credits
  2. ↑ Dixon, 1992 p. 31-32: Plot sketch
  3. ↑ Variety, Aug. 8, 1951, p. 18.
  4. ↑ 'Little Egypt' Shows How Cooch Dance Won at Fair Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times, Sept. 13, 1951: A10.
  5. ↑ Boxoffice, Aug. 18, 1951, p. 1287.
  6. ↑ Dixon, 1992 p. 32: “The production facilities used by Lippert were even more desperate than those used at Monogram” another Poverty row studio.
  7. ↑ Dixon, 1992 p. 32
  8. ↑ Dixon, 1992 p. 31-32: The film “serves as an excuse for a series of songs…”
  9. ↑ Dixon, 1992 p. 146: See Technical Credits.

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