Tender Comrade (1944)
1h 42m
Running Time
May 30, 1944Release Date
Tender Comrade (1944)
1h 42m
Running Time
May 30, 1944Release Date
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Plot.
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
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Cast & Crew.
Ginger Rogers
Jo Jones
Robert Ryan
Chris Jones
Ruth Hussey
Barbara Thomas
Patricia Collinge
Helen Stacey
Mady Christians
Manya Lodge
Kim Hunter
Doris Dumbrowski
Edward Dmytryk
Director
Dalton Trumbo
Writer
Jane Darwell
Mrs. Henderson
David Hempstead
Producer
Richard Martin
Mike Dumbrowski
Leigh Harline
Composer
Robert J. Anderson
Boy (uncredited)
Russell Metty
Cinematographer
Patti Brill
Western Union Girl (uncredited)
Donald Davis
Boy (uncredited)
Roland Gross
Editor
Edward Fielding
Doctor (uncredited)
Mary Forbes
Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Richard Gaines
Waldo Pierson (uncredited)
Freddie Mercer
Boy (uncredited)
Claire Whitney
Nurse (uncredited)
Vernon L. Walker
Special Effects
Carroll Clark
Art Direction
Media.
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Wiki.
Tender Comrade is a 1943 black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are away at war.
The film stars Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, and Kim Hunter and was directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was later used by the HUAC as evidence of Dalton Trumbo spreading communist propaganda. Trumbo was subsequently blacklisted.
The film's title comes from a line in Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "My Wife" first published in Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896).