Details

Release year: 1942

Storyline

In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Germans seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.

Top credits

Directors

Leo McCarey

Writers

Cast

Ginger Rogers — Katie O'Hara, Katherine Butt-Smith, Baroness Katherine Von Luber
Cary Grant — Patrick O'Toole
Walter Slezak — Baron Franz Von Luber
Albert Dekker — Gaston Le Blanc

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• (at around 22 mins) Cary Grant tells Ginger Rogers that he will always remember her character "just the way you look tonight", evoking a smirk from Rogers. The line alludes to the song of the same title that Fred Astaire sang to Rogers in Swing Time (1936).

• O'Toole ends his coerced radio broadcast with the phrase, "Tell it to the Marines." In the English usage of that day, the retort "Tell it to the Marines" meant, "Everything you just said is total bull, and cannot be believed for one minute." So by ending the speech that way, he was telling his American listeners that everything he had just said in the broadcast was untrue. Presumably his Nazi captors did not get the nuance, but the moviegoing audience would have.

• Cary Grant thought the screenplay was rubbish, but agreed to do the film because he had been condemned for allegedly dodging the draft in both the UK and the US.