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John Loves Mary (1949)

John Loves Mary poster
Directed by
David Butler
Genre
comedy film, musical film, romantic comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A returning soldier and his friend get tangled in a romantic misunderstanding involving the soldier's old girlfriend and his friend's British wife. The story follows their attempts to sort out the confusion.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulupbeatconversationaldated-romanticcomic

What happens

John Loves Mary is a 1949 comedy film directed by David Butler and written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Jack Carson. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 19, 1949. It's based on a Broadway play of the same name written by Norman Krasna, which ran from February 4, 1947, to February 7, 1948, at the Booth Theatre and Music Box Theatre in New York City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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