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True to the Army (1942)

True to the Army poster
Directed by
Albert S. Rogell
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman gets involved in a case of mistaken identity and hides out in a college dormitory. She disguises herself as a male student, which leads to comic complications.

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What happens

True to the Army is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell, written by Art Arthur, Bradford Ropes, Edmund L. Hartmann and Val Burton, and starring Judy Canova, Allan Jones, Ann Miller, Jerry Colonna, Clarence Kolb, Edward Pawley and William Wright. It was released on March 21, 1942, by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a 1933 play by Howard Lindsay that was based on the 1933 novel She Loves Me Not by Edward Hope. Paramount had previously filmed the property as She Loves Me Not (1934) starring Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins. 20th Century Fox remade the property in 1955 as How to Be Very, Very Popular. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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