- A family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail. Then they discover Ruth's younger sister was the culprit.
- A normal day in the Wilkins family: reticent beauty Ruth, crusty judge father, petition-happy political activist teen Miriam. Who should show up but Ruth's soldier pen pal Bill Seacroft...whom she doesn't know about. It seems Miriam used her sister's name and picture to build up wartime morale. Ruth reluctantly agrees to "humor" Bill for his 2-day leave, though she's just become engaged to her stuffy suitor Albert. Can Miriam's cloud castle last the weekend without crashing to earth?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
- The setting is a suburb of New York City. It's 1944 and World War II is still going on. A bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Lt. William Seacroft has flown from Italy on a two-day leave to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. He pops in on the Wilkins family. But he's a surprise to Ruth's parents, and to Ruth (who just said "Yes!" to wed her childhood sweetheart, Albert). So, Ruth is a ruse of sorts, impersonated in the mail by her well-meaning and precocious teenage sister, Miriam. Bedlam breaks loose around the Wilkins household over the next two days. But the place was ripe for it, with a cast of characters that make up one of the zaniest sane families of film.—SimonJack
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