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Give Me a Sailor (1938) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1938 · 80 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Elliott Nugent
- Starring
- Irving Bacon, Don Brodie, Ned Glass, Betty Grable, Richard Denning, Dorothy White
Jim and Walter, brothers in the United States Navy, plan to return home soon. Walter tells Jim he will ask his girlfriend, Nancy Larkin, to marry him as soon as they’re back. Jim, also in love with Nancy, persuades her overlooked sister Letty to break them up, on the condition that Jim helps Letty win Walter’s heart.
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