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Navy Wife
Navy Wife is a 1956 comedy film directed by Edward Bernds (who also directed "Three Stooges" and "Bowery Boys"), and starring Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill, Shirley Yamaguchi. The screenplay was written by Kay Lenard, based on the novel "Mother Sir" by Tats Blain. The film was produced by Walter Wanger, who was Bennett's husband in real life.
Summary.
This movie takes place in post-war Japan, where Peg Blain (Bennett) and daughter Debby
early 1940s Bill played with Frank Orchard, Bobby Hackett, Max Kaminsky, Wingy Manone and Joe Marsala. Bill met his future wife, Ruth Sato, at the Forbidden City oriental nightclub on 58th Street in New York when they both were performing there. They married in June 1942. Bill enlisted in the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia (May 1942), doing boot training with the "Ninth Seabee battalion" and was discharged in Sep., 1945.
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For the next 20 months Bill and Ruth