Judge Wilkins and his wife Edie are puzzled when Lieutenant William Seacroft, a complete stranger, shows up at their home, asking for their elder, 22-year-old daughter Ruth. (She has gone to work at the bank, driven by her 34-year-old boyfriend Albert.) Bill has just returned from Italy, where he flew 25 missions over Germany as the bombardier of a B-26 bomber, but he only has a two-day leave. He explains that he has been corresponding with their daughter and has fallen in love with her long-distance. He makes a favorable impression on Ruth's parents and promises to return at 5:30 to meet her for the first time in person.
Ruth comes home and tells her parents she is getting married. They assume she has encountered Bill, but it turns out she is marrying Albert. They soon find out that their energetic 16-year-old daughter Miriam wrote to Bill 60 times, using her sister's name and sending him a photograph of Ruth, just one of her many contributions to the war effort and servicemen's morale. Ruth decides to tell Bill the truth immediately, but when he arrives, she cannot bring herself to do so. When Albert shows up for a date with Ruth, she slips away with Bill so that she can tell him privately, not in front of her entire family....
Directed by William D. Russell
Written by Arthur Sheekman
Based on the play Dear Ruth
by Norman Krasna
Produced by Paul Jones
Starring
Joan Caulfield
William Holden
Mona Freeman
Edward Arnold
Billy de Wolfe
Cinematography Ernest Laszlo
Edited by Archie Marshek
Joan Caulfield as Ruth Wilkins
William Holden as Lieut. William Seacroft
Mona Freeman as Miriam Wilkins
Edward Arnold as Judge Harry Wilkins
Billy De Wolfe as Albert Kummer
Mary Philips as Mrs. [Edie] Wilkins
Virginia Welles as Martha Seacroft
Kenny O'Morrison as Sgt. Chuck Vincent
Marietta Canty as Dora [the Wilkins' maid]
Irving Bacon as Delivery Man
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