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Government Girl (1943)

Government Girl poster
Directed by
Dudley Nichols
Genre
romantic comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a secretary in Washington D.C. helps her new boss, a civilian aircraft expert, navigate government red tape to get bomber planes built. Along the way, she deals with political maneuvering and her growing romantic feelings for him.

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What happens

Government Girl is a 1943 American romantic-comedy film, produced and directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland and Sonny Tufts. Based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and written by Dudley Nichols and Budd Schulberg, the film is about a secretary working in Washington for the war administration during World War II who helps her boss navigate the complex political machinations of government in an effort to build bomber aircraft for the war effort. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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