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Two Girls and a Sailor is a american film of genre War directed by Richard Thorpe released in USA on 14 june 1944 with June Allyson
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
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Add to a movie listTwo Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer. It featured a host of celebrity performances, including Jimmy Durante doing his hallmark "Inka Dinka Doo", Gracie Allen, and Lena Horne. Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Two sisters, Jean and Patsy Deyo, are born into a vaudeville family, and when they grow up, start an act themselves. One night, they invite a bunch of servicemen to their apartment. They are both attracted to a sailor named Johnny. Jean points out to Johnny an unused nearby warehouse they wish they could make into a canteen to entertain the troops.Actors
June Allyson
(Patsy Deyo)
Gloria DeHaven
(Jean Deyo)
Van Johnson
(John Dyckman Brown III)
Tom Drake
(Frank Miller)
Henry Stephenson
(John Dyckman Brown I)
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