Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basically the story is trite and simple, but what keeps them waiting in line at the Met is the hilarious dialogue which both rolls 'em in the aisles and keeps them chuckling the morning after. The acting throughout the picture is superb with Ginger playing her three-faced part without dropping a stitch and the pseudo-sophisticated cadets, just Sue-Sue's age, throw a line at Ginger which would shame anything around the Square for pure brass and military strategy. Benchley's all too short appearance packs into a few shots what some comedians needs a lifetime...
Just to give you a rough idea of what kind of people they've dragged into the story, we'll start off with John Payne. Now Payne plays an honest-to-gosh heel; he's the "love 'em and leave 'em" Marine again. In any other context he'd be soundly hissed and hooted at; in "Iceland" he looks by contrast like the prime contender for the Florence Nightingale humanity award...
Another growing shortage: pin boys. In many alleys pin girls are already setting 'em...
...said a sergeant. "I throw'd a couple of rocks at 'em...
Said Farmer Howard Hancock, who has a prosperous 740-acre stock farm on Hurricane Creek near Nashville, Tenn.: "There's more men on this farm today than ever I've seen here. I wish I could put'em all to work." The men were U.S. soldiers on maneuvers, and they worked hard because, unlike the men on last year's maneuvers, they knew they would soon face the enemy...