So Proudly We Hail! (1943) | |
| Director(s) | Mark Sandrich |
| Producer(s) | Mark Sandrich, Buddy G. DeSylva (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Nurses, World War II |
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So Proudly We Hail! Overview:
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Mark Sandrich and produced by Mark Sandrich and Buddy G. DeSylva.
SYNOPSIS
Paramount's reigning divas, Colbert, Lake, and Goddard, appear in unglamorous roles as three nurses who survive the most brutal Pacific-theater battles of WWII. Director Sandrich accentuates the danger and hard conditions as he depicts the courage and the daily routines of women who worked at the front. This novel approach made a big impact on the homefront audiences used to seeing glossy renditions of wartime romance. This also displayed Lake's new, short hairdo, ordered by the war department to prevent female war workers from catching their long, Lake-like tresses in factory machinery.
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Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actress | Paulette Goddard | Nominated |
| Best Cinematography | Charles Lang | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Allan Scott | Nominated |
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So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Sep 12, 2018 From 4 Star FilmsThere were three reasons to watch this film. Their names are Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake. Yes, this picture directed by Mark Sandrich was fairly groundbreaking in its day for telling a story about nurses during WWII but there might be mixed feelings across the board about ... Read full article
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
on May 9, 2013 From Journeys in Classic FilmIt’s appropriate that So Proudly We Hail! aired during TCM’s new series Friday Night Spotlight (yes, by admitting that I acknowledge this review is a taste late to the party), as it features a war story that doesn’t explore the quiet desperation of army wives at home.? The women of... Read full article
SO PROUDLY WE HAIL!(1943)
By Dawn Sample on Apr 13, 2013 From Noir and Chick FlicksSo Proudly We Hail! (1943). Directed and produced by Mark Sandrich. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance and Veronica Lake. The script for this film was written by using the stories from journals, and diaries... Read full article
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Quotes from
Kansas: I never catch a cold.
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Stop prying into things that don't concern you.
Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: Maybe it does concern me. It concerns me that the morale of this group remains high. Until you joined up, it was. You're just a troublemaker. I-I don't really care what's bothering you at all. I don't like you any more than the rest of the girls do.
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: I'm supposed to be a nurse and that's all.
Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: No. There's more than that now that we're at war. Maybe you don't know what's up. Maybe you don't know what we're doing here.
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: You think I don't know. All right, I'll tell you. I know what I'm doing, I know why I'm here. I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to kill Japs.
[stands up]
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Every blood-stained one I can get my hands on!
Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: [hushed] Olivia!
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: That doesn't sound nice coming from a nurse, does it? We're supposed to be angels of mercy, 're supposed to tend to the wounded and take care of the sick. We're supposed to be kind and tender and serve humanity in the name of humanity. What humanity? Dead humanity?
Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: Olivia, be quiet!
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: No, you asked me, you wanted to know, you pried into things that didn't concern you.You wanted to know that this is - look! Look at this!
[opens a locket Davidson was asking about]
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Do you know what it is? I'll tell you, it's a boy.
[door opens, two other girls look in]
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Come in, both of you, you wanted to know too. Today is Christmas, isn't it? The time for cheer and good fellowship, and for peace. Well, today's my wedding day.
[holds out locket]
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: You see that? He and I were to be married today, in Saint Louis. And why weren't we? Because he's dead. He died that first morning. They killed him. I saw him. He was running across the field to his plane and they killed him. Sixty bullets - sixty! By the time I got to him he was dead. His face was gone - I couldn't see him any more. Just blood - blood all over! [bursts into tears]
Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: [rushes to her side] Oh, Olivia!
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Let me go. Let me go. They must be punished, and I'm going to punish them! He was dead. It was ended for him... [cries]
Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: I wanted him... He was all I had... I loved him so much...
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Facts about
It is eerily coincidental that Superman is mentioned several times in this film. His story is told to some children in one scene, and the soldier named "Kansas" is called Superman in another. George Reeves, who plays Lt. John Summers, would be cast as Superman eight years after this movie was made, and portrayed the superhero in both a television series and on the silver screen.
During shooting, a rift occurred between Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard when Colbert overheard Goddard say that she and Veronica Lake were closer friends because they were the same age. Colbert was miffed because Goddard (38 at the time) was actually closer to Colbert's age (40) than Veronica Lake's (24).
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