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'''''Sunday Dinner for a Soldier''''' is a 1944 motion picture directed by [[Lloyd Bacon]] and
based on a novelette by [[Martha Cheavens]].
 
The film tells the story of a poor family in Florida who wants to host a meal for a serviceman from the Army airbase nearby.
 
==Primary cast==
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*[[Bobby Driscoll]] - Jeep
*[[Jane Darwell]] - Mrs. Dobson
 
==Plot==
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan a Sunday dinner for a soldier at at local Army airbase. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him (Hodiak) and Tessa (Baxter), the young woman who runs the home.
 
==Radio adaptation==
On February 19, 1945, Baxter, Hodiak, and Winninger appeared in a radio adaptation of the film on ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]''.
 
==References==
*"The Screen; Crisis and Romance", ''The New York Times'', (January 25, 1945.)
 
==External links==