Dear Ruth
Released: June 10, 1947Runtime: 95 min
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
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Joan Caulfield
as Ruth Wilkins
William Holden
as Lt. William Seacroft
Mona Freeman
as Miriam Wilkins
Edward Arnold
as Judge Harry Wilkins
Billy De Wolfe
as Albert Kummer
Mary Philips
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Virginia Welles
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Kevin O Morrison
as Sgt. Chuck Vincent
Marietta Canty
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Irving Bacon
as Delivery Man
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