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Tender Comrade (1943)

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• Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director Edward Dmytryk were known for their left-wing political beliefs--they were among the infamous "Hollywood Ten" blacklisted during the McCarthy-era anti-Communist hysteria after the war--and Ginger Rogers, a staunch Republican, began noticing what she interpreted to be "anti-American" speeches in her dialog. Upon complaining, the speeches were given to other actresses.
  
  
• This film was introduced as evidence when director Edward Dmytryk and writer Dalton Trumbo were hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating them on suspicion of being Communists. Despite the film's many flag-waving speeches, the communal living arrangements of the ladies in the film was cited as evidence of how Dmytryk and Trumbo attempted to brainwash unsuspecting American moviegoers with Communist "propaganda". As even more damning "evidence", there was the use of the word "Comrade" in the title.
  
  
• Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names, if any): Donald Davis (Boy), Robert Anderson (Boy), Jane Farrar, Tom Burton, Mike Road and Freddie Mercer.
  
  

• Although there was a Los Angeles, California showing on 29 December 1943 to make the film eligible for an Academy Award, the film was not released nationally until mid-1944.
  
  

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