I'll Be Seeing You

1944
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1h 25m

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7.1/10

2.6K

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Shirley Temple, Joseph Cotten, and Ginger Rogers in I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.

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Holiday Romance Drama Family Romance War

A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.

Directors
- William Dieterle
- George Cukor
Writers
- Marion Parsonnet
- Charles Martin
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- William Dieterle
- George Cukor
Writers
- Marion Parsonnet
- Charles Martin
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Lt. Bruce
(as Dare Harris)

Chill Wills

Swanson

Kenny Bowers

Sailor on Train

Fred Aldrich

Sidewalk Cowboy
(uncredited)

Walter Baldwin

Train Vendor (replaced by Olin Howland)
(uncredited)

Brandon Beach

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Margaret Bert

Mother of Boys
(uncredited)

Jack Carr

Counterman at Train Station
(uncredited)

Helen Dickson

New Year's Eve Partygoer
(uncredited)

Robert Dudley

Pine Hills YMCA Hotel Attendant
(uncredited)

Gary Gray

Franklin - Boy with Toy Machine Gun
(uncredited)

Eddie Hall

Charlie Hartman
(uncredited)

Joe Haworth

Sailor in Coffee Shop
(uncredited)

Directors
- William Dieterle
- George Cukor
Writers
- Marion Parsonnet
- Charles Martin
All cast & crew
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Trivia
David O. Selznick originally wanted to title this movie "I'll See You Again" and use the 1929 Noël Coward song of the same title as its theme music. However, he thought Coward wanted too much money for the use of the song and its title. Instead, Selznick acquired the rights to the 1938 song "I'll Be Seeing You," with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal. The emotionally powerful song was especially beloved during WWII when it became a sentimental anthem for British and American soldiers serving overseas.

Goofs
When Mrs Marshall hang's up Zach's overcoat in the closet, the rank on the overcoat is that of a Master Sergeant, but he is a Sgt First Class and not a Master Sergeant.

Quotes
Mary Marshall: [coming out of a theater showing a war movie] Is the war really like that?
Zachary Morgan: I guess so.
Mary Marshall: That's funny.
Zachary Morgan: Why?
Mary Marshall: I mean that you should only guess so.
Zachary Morgan: Well, they have experts making those pictures. I guess that's the way they see the war. A beach a mile long, and thousands of soldiers, and tanks, and machine guns and everything. I guess that's the way it is.
Mary Marshall: But it wasn't that way for you, huh?
Zachary Morgan: It's just a difference in size. To a guy that's in it, the war's about ten feet wide, and kind of empty. It's you and a couple of fellows in your company, maybe, and maybe a couple of Japs. It's all kind of mixed up. Sometimes it's all full of noise, and sometimes it's quiet. It all depends on what you're thinking about, I guess. It depends on how scared you are, how cold you are, and how wet you are. I guess if you asked a hundred guys what the war's like, they'd all give you a different answer. Mary. You know what?
Mary Marshall: What?
Zachary Morgan: I mean, usually you don't like to talk about it. I never said anything about it before, not to anybody.
Mary Marshall: I'm sorry, I ...
Zachary Morgan: No. No, I feel kind of good.

Connections
Featured in TCM Guest Programmer: Tony Bennett and Gary Sargent (2015)

Soundtracks
I'll Be Seeing You
Music by Sammy Fain
Lyrics by Irving Kahal
Performed by Louanne Hogan

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Featured review

8/10

Proves the old adage, "you are as sick as your secrets."

Good World War II romantic drama with excellent performances by Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton and 16-year old Shirley Temple.

"I'll Be Seeing You" looks at the effects of a kind of `battle fatigue' known then as "old sergeant's syndrome". This particular form of post-traumatic stress occurred in battle-seasoned noncommissioned officers. After a dreadful encounter with someone's guard dog Sgt. Zachary Morgan, on leave from an Army mental hospital, experiences a very realistic and dramatically effective "flash back". Through judicious camera editing you see Joseph Cotton affect the appropriate 'sweat response', as his forehead, chest, shoulders and armpits become progressively more sweat-drenched. Very realistic!

This movie also subtly delivers the message that none of us are perfect and that open-mindedness and compassion are virtues called for under difficult circumstances.