''A Guy, a Gal and a Pal'' is a 1945 American
comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
romance film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typica ...
directed by
Budd Boetticher
Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr. ( ; July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001) was an American film director. He is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.
Early life
Boetticher was born in ...
(as Oscar Boetticher Jr.) and starring
Ross Hunter
Ross Hunter (born Martin Terry Fuss; May 6, 1916 or 1920 – March 10, 1996) was an American film and television producer and actor. He is best known for producing light comedies such as '' Pillow Talk'' (1959), and the glamorous melodramas '' ...
and
Lynn Merrick
Lynn Merrick (born Marilyn Llewelling, November 19, 1919 – March 25, 2007) was an American actress who appeared in over 40 films during the 1940s, mainly for Columbia and Republic Studios.
Early life
Merrick was born Marilyn Llewelling on ...
.
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Plot
A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a stranger.
Cast
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Ross Hunter
Ross Hunter (born Martin Terry Fuss; May 6, 1916 or 1920 – March 10, 1996) was an American film and television producer and actor. He is best known for producing light comedies such as '' Pillow Talk'' (1959), and the glamorous melodramas '' ...
as Jimmy Jones
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Lynn Merrick
Lynn Merrick (born Marilyn Llewelling, November 19, 1919 – March 25, 2007) was an American actress who appeared in over 40 films during the 1940s, mainly for Columbia and Republic Studios.
Early life
Merrick was born Marilyn Llewelling on ...
as Helen Carter
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Ted Donaldson
Ted Donaldson (born August 20, 1933 in New York City) is an American former child actor.
Early years
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Donaldson was the son of singer-composer Will Donaldson and Will's wife, Jo. His mother died when he was years old. ...
as Butch
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George Meeker as Granville Breckenridge
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Jack Norton
Jack Norton (born Mortimer John Naughton; September 2, 1882 – October 15, 1958) was an American stage and film character actor who appeared in more than 180 films between 1934 and 1948, often playing drunks, although in real life he was a ...
as Norton
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Will Stanton as Barclay
See also
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List of American films of 1945
This is a list of American films that were released in 1945. In that year, the film '' The Lost Weekend'' won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
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References
External links
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''A Guy a Gal and a Pal''at
TCMDB
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1945 films
American comedy-drama films
1940s English-language films
1945 comedy-drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Budd Boetticher
1940s American films
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