Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Released: December 8, 1944Runtime: 85 min
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.
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Anne Baxter
as Tessa Osborne
Charles Winninger
as Dudley 'Granfeathers' Osborne
John Hodiak
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Anne Revere
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Connie Marshall
as Mary Osborne
Chill Wills
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Robert Bailey
as Kenneth Normand
Bobby Driscoll
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Jane Darwell
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Rory Calhoun
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