I Was a Male War Bride

As another example of classic, post-war Hollywood, I watched Howard Hawks's 1949 movie I Was a Male War Bride. Starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan, this movie is a humorous look at wartime love stories. A captain in the French army, Henri Rochard (Grant) is assigned to work with American Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan). During their assignments together, they get into a series of hilarious situations. They develop a friendship, and from that, they fall in love and decide to get married.

After being married three times - once by the American army, once by the German government, and once by Henri's pastor - the couple is interrupted on their honeymoon by a fellow American officer. Catherine's unit is returning to the United States, and without time to apply for a passport for Henri, they have to find a way to get him into the United States. Henri has to apply as an "alien spouse of female military personnel, en route to the United States...", or in other words, a war bride.

Differing from movies like Casablanca, the situations that the Rochards have to go through to be together make I Was a Male War Bride a comical movie about post-war love overseas.