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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.
Tender Comrade: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge. 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.
- (1K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Edward Dmytryk
- 1944-06
Mar 3, 2023 · 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.Robe...
- 102 min
- 6.6K
- Epizodes and Horizons
When Manya tells them that her husband is fighting in the U.S. Army and that she views keeping house for the four defense workers as part of her contribution to the war effort, the women decide to hire Manya and pool their earnings, splitting in five parts whatever is left after paying expenses.
- Edward Dmytryk, Harry Scott
- Ginger Rogers
Released in 1943/1944, "Tender Comrade" gets its title from a poem called "My Wife", by Robert Louis Stevenson, which glowingly lists the wonderful traits of his wife. The first line of the third stanza reads: "Teacher, tender, comrade, wife".
Jo (Ginger Rogers) works at an aircraft factory during World War II when her husband Chris (Robert Ryan) is called off to fight. Leaning on the support of...
- Drama
Tender Comrade (1943) - Directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by David Hempstead, Sherman Todd and starring Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge, Mady Christians, Kim Hunter, Jane Darwell, Richard Martin,and more...
