When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950 Theatrical Poster
Directed byJohn Ford
Screenplay byRichard Sale
Mary Loos
Story bySy Gomberg
Produced byFred Kohlmar
StarringDan Dailey
Corinne Calvet
Colleen Townsend
William Demarest
CinematographyLeo Tover
Edited byJames B. Clark
Music byAlfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • February 17, 1950 (1950-02-17)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,750,000[1][2]
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When Willie Comes Marching Home is a 1950 World War II comedy film directed by John Ford and starring Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet. It is based on the 1945 short story "When Leo Comes Marching Home" by Sy Gomberg. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.[3]

Sy Gomberg also received an Oscar nomination for Best Motion Picture Story at the 23rd Academy Awards in 1951 but was edged out for the award by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt for Panic in the Streets.

The film was referred to in M*A*S*H (1970), directed by Robert Altman.

  1. ^ "Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 223
  3. ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Retrieved 2012-08-12.