May 5 movie: The Sailor Takes a Wife. A sweet little movie from late in the war. A sailor (Robert Walker) and a canteen girl (June Allyson) get married the night they meet, right before he ships out. Allyson seems to see the marriage as a patriotic gesture and an excuse to move into her own apartment. Ruh-roh, Walker is 4F! Now they have to actually live together, as, like, man and wife! Hilarity ensues.
This movie wasn't great, but it was worth the time. Allyson's sexless girl-child schtick is the object of comedy here, instead of being portrayed as some kind of model of pure womanhood. Which made it much easier to take. Walker even tells her she looks like "a cute little bunny" on their wedding night. Ha! Also, I've never seen a wartime movie before where the male lead was 4F.
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Isn't the male protagonist in Miracle at Morgan's Creek (played by Eddie Bracken) 4F because of his fainting problem?