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Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
Charley Grapewin
- Wilson - Caretaker
- (scenes deleted)
Wade Boteler
- Irish Policeman
- (uncredited)
Don Brodie
- Candy Store Attendant
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Butler
- Jack - Elevator Boy
- (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
- Corporal
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Tommy - Soldier
- (uncredited)
Roger Converse
- Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
James Flavin
- Guard Yelling 'Halt!'
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBroadway musical-comedy star Mary Martin provides the singing voice for Margaret Sullavan. This same year she also dubbed the singing voice for Gypsy Rose Lee in Battle of Broadway (1938). Modern sources indicate that Universal's The Rage of Paris (1938), which was filmed at approximately the same time as The Shopworn Angel was Martin's first film "bit" role. According to records of the M-G-M Music Collection at the USC Cinema-Television Library, Martin's recording of "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile was made on 1 June 1938.
- GoofsBill mails his postcards after leaving the soda fountain, seemingly without putting any stamps on them, but on one shot while he's sitting at the lunch counter you can see stamps on the cards. However, in the next close-up, just before he leaves, the cards are unstamped. The likely reason is that all the closeup shots where he's writing on the blank cards were filmed together with the same camera setup, and the long shots were shot later after stamps were added. (Perhaps they filmed a scene of Bill buying and affixing stamps but decided not to use it.)
- Quotes
Pvt. William 'Texas' Pettigrew: Dying's a lot like being in love. You can't imagine it until its right on top of you.
- SoundtracksYou're In The Army Now
(1917) (uncredited)
Music by Isham Jones
Lyrics by Tell Taylor and Ole Olsen
Played as background music for marching soldiers
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It's the screenplay that's shopworn
Even the great Margaret Sullavan can't make sense out of a character who starts out as a bossy, obnoxious, self-centered Broadway star, is humanized by hayseed soldier James Stewart by about the third reel, suddenly becomes a Nobly Suffering Heroine, still leads steady beau (and keeper) Walter Pidgeon on, and tries in every way to have her cake and eat it too. Later Sullavan and Stewart have a contest to see who can have the wettest eyes. It's a Borzage-like romance without the Borzage touch, and with cliches that must have been cliches even by 1938--the chorines trilling "Pack Up Your Troubles" as the World War 1 soldiers depart for France (and Sullavan's incongruous dubbing is unintentionally hilarious), the lovestruck private dreaming of his ladylove while peeling potatoes, the bombs-bursting-in-air war montages with ominous music. Amid such blarney it's a relief to have Pidgeon's unsentimental if slightly inert presence, and Hattie McDaniel as a maid who seems smarter and more commonsensical than anyone else in the movie.
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- marcslope
- Aug 18, 2003
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- Kavarna propadlih angelov
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- $531,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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