Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry
Directed byEdward Buzzell
Written byGeorge Bruce
Mary C. McCall, Jr.
Produced byGeorge Haight
Starring
CinematographyRay June
Edited byFrank E. Hull
Music byDavid Snell
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • March 6, 1945 (1945-03-06) (Washington, D.C.)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.3 million[1]
Box office$2.7 million[1]

Keep Your Powder Dry is a 1945 American drama film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Lana Turner, Susan Peters, and Laraine Day. Its plot follows 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.

Filmed in Florida and Iowa in late 1944, Keep Your Powder Dry premiered in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 1945. It went on to become a financial success for its studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, earning $2.7 million against its $1.3 million budget.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.