Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Gals IN UNIFORM...IN ACTION...IN LOVE! They're strictly G.I.
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
- Date of release
- 1945-04-01
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Edward Buzzell
Casting
- Lana Turner — Valerie Parks
- Laraine Day — Leigh Rand
- Susan Peters — Ann Darrison
- Agnes Moorehead — Lieut. Colonel Spottiswoode
- Bill Johnson — Capt. Bill Barclay
- Natalie Schafer — Harriet Corwin
- Lee Patrick — Gladys Hopkins
- Jess Barker — Junior Vanderheusen
- June Lockhart — Sarah Swanson
- Marta Linden — Capt. Sanders
- Tim Murdock — Capt. Joseph Mannering
- Henry O'Neill — Maj. Gen. Lee Rand
Interesting facts
Keep Your Powder Dry is a 1945 American drama film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Lana Turner, Susan Peters, and Laraine Day, with Agnes Moorehead, Bill Johnson, Jess Barker, Lee Patrick, Natalie Schafer, and June Lockhart in supporting roles. The film focuses on three women who join the Women's Army Corps during World War II. The screenplay was written by George Bruce and Mary C. McCall, Jr.
Production
Principal photography began August 28, 1944, and completed in November 1944. It was reported in August 1944 that cinematographer Richard Rosson shot backgrounds for the film at the Women's Army Corps training centers in Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort Oglethorpe. Sgt. Art Moore of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographic Unit instructed 50 dancing girls for drill scenes featured in the film.
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