Pillow to Post
A traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage. With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard…
Pillow to Post
A traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage. With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father. —Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com> It's the middle of WWII on the US home front. With her father, the owner of a southern California oil well supply business, having problems finding men to work as salesmen due to most qualified men serving in the military, Jean Howard is eventually able to convince him to let her work as such despite she having no real discernible job skills and no work experience. Determined to make a sale after a few false starts, she, in the town of Clayfield upstate, ends up making a potential sale to Earl Clark, nicknamed Slim, their subsequent date that evening which may seal the deal. She isn't as lucky finding someplace to stay in Clayfield as the only accommodation with an available room is the Colonial Auto Court, which is only open to military men stationed at the nearby base and their wives. She first lies to anyone having to do with providing the accommodation saying that she is married to a lieutenant, then second has to find a lieutenant to pretend to be her husband. She is eventually only able to find one single lieutenant, Don Mallory, who after initial skepticism on his part, she is able to convince to lie by making that necessary appearance as her husband after which he can leave. Complications ensue as they have to carry the lie further in one of the couples living there being his CO, Colonel Michael Otley, and his wife of thirty years, Kate. Thus, they have to be one thing to the colonel and his wife, all the other military couples there and the accommodation managers, another thing to Slim, another thing to her father, and yet something else to Don's mother, who arrives unexpectedly, placing the auto court houseboy, Lucille, in a tizzy trying to keep things straight. —Huggo Due to the wartime man shortage, formerly idle Jean Howard becomes a sales representative for her father's oil-drilling equipment company. She's just getting the hang of it when she's stranded in an army-base town with no place to stay...unless she's an Army bride. Unsuspecting Lieut. Mallory is fast-talked into registering as her husband, then finds his commanding officer is living at the same motel; and that's just the start of the complications. Lots of physical comedy. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Pillow to Post
Comedy,Romance
Film Details
A traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage. With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale.
She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt.
Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com> It's the middle of WWII on the US home front. With her father, the owner of a southern California oil well supply business, having problems finding men to work as salesmen due to most qualified men serving in the military, Jean Howard is eventually able to convince him to let her work as such despite she having no real discernible job skills and no work experience. Determined to make a sale after a few false starts, she, in the town of Clayfield upstate, ends up making a potential sale to Earl Clark, nicknamed Slim, their subsequent date that evening which may seal the deal.
She isn't as lucky finding someplace to stay in Clayfield as the only accommodation with an available room is the Colonial Auto Court, which is only open to military men stationed at the nearby base and their wives. She first lies to anyone having to do with providing the accommodation saying that she is married to a lieutenant, then second has to find a lieutenant to pretend to be her husband. She is eventually only able to find one single lieutenant, Don Mallory, who after initial skepticism on his part, she is able to convince to lie by making that necessary appearance as her husband after which he can leave.
Complications ensue as they have to carry the lie further in one of the couples living there being his CO, Colonel Michael Otley, and his wife of thirty years, Kate. Thus, they have to be one thing to the colonel and his wife, all the other military couples there and the accommodation managers, another thing to Slim, another thing to her father, and yet something else to Don's mother, who arrives unexpectedly, placing the auto court houseboy, Lucille, in a tizzy trying to keep things straight. —Huggo Due to the wartime man shortage, formerly idle Jean Howard becomes a sales representative for her father's oil-drilling equipment company.
She's just getting the hang of it when she's stranded in an army-base town with no place to stay...unless she's an Army bride. Unsuspecting Lieut. Mallory is fast-talked into registering as her husband, then finds his commanding officer is living at the same motel; and that's just the start of the complications.
Lots of physical comedy. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>.