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World War Ii | San Francisco, California
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Best Performances of the Month September | 1943 | Claudette
Best Performances of the Month (September) | 1943
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1944 | Paulette
Best Writing Original Screenplay | 1944 | Allan
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1944
Best Effects Special Effects | 1944
Best Actor | 1943
In keeping with Army regulations, Veronica Lake (Lt. Olivia D'Arcy) changed her famous "peek-a-boo" hairstyle. She only let her hair down once, in her final scene. Later she cut it with much publicity, because women who copied her and worked in factories kept getting their hair caught in the machinery.
During shooting, a rift occurred between Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard after Colbert overheard Goddard say that she and Veronica Lake were closer friends because they were the same age. Colbert was miffed because Goddard (32 at the time) was closer to Colbert's age (39) than Lake's (20).
The film covers the World War II Battle of Bataan. This is a Central Luzon region province on Luzon island in the Philippines and occupies the whole of the Bataan Peninsula on the island.
The scene where the nurses witness money being burned was an actual event. $20,000,000 in currency was incinerated to keep it from falling into Japanese hands. Millions more in coins and silver that could not be destroyed was buried, but as of 2020 none of that money has been found.
Before departing from the US, Joan asks Janet to stall one of her beaus on the dock. To do so, Janet recites the first four lines of the poem "Snowflakes" by Mary Mapes Dodge: "Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, / It turns and turns to say 'Good-by! / Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!'. Then lightly travels on its way." At first she garbles the last line, but then gets it right.
"Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Stop prying into things that don't concern you. Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: Maybe it does concern me. It concerns me that the morale of this group remains high. Until you joined up, it was. You're just a troublemaker. I-I don't really care what's bothering you at all. I don't like you any more than the rest of the girls do. Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: I'm supposed to be a nurse and that's all. Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: No. There's more than that now that we're at war. Maybe you don't know what's up. Maybe you don't know what we're doing here. Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: You think I don't know. All right, I'll tell you. I know what I'm doing, I know why I'm here. I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to kill Japs. [stands up] Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Every blood-stained one I can get my hands on! Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: [hushed] Olivia! Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: That doesn't sound nice coming from a nurse, does it? We're supposed to be angels of mercy, 're supposed to tend to the wounded and take care of the sick. We're supposed to be kind and tender and serve humanity in the name of humanity. What humanity? Dead humanity? Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: Olivia, be quiet! Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: No, you asked me, you wanted to know, you pried into things that didn't concern you.You wanted to know that this is - look! Look at this! [opens a locket Davidson was asking about] Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Do you know what it is? I'll tell you, it's a boy. [door opens, two other girls look in] Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Come in, both of you, you wanted to know too. Today is Christmas, isn't it? The time for cheer and good fellowship, and for peace. Well, today's my wedding day. [holds out locket] Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: You see that? He and I were to be married today, in Saint Louis. And why weren't we? Because he's dead. He died that first morning. They killed him. I saw him. He was running across the field to his plane and they killed him. Sixty bullets - sixty! By the time I got to him he was dead. His face was gone - I couldn't see him any more. Just blood - blood all over! [bursts into tears] Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: [rushes to her side] Oh, Olivia! Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: Let me go. Let me go. They must be punished, and I'm going to punish them! He was dead. It was ended for him... [cries] Lt. Olivia D'Arcy: I wanted him... He was all I had... I loved him so much..."
"Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson: The two years will go by like wildfire. Ensign: Yes, the years are short, its the days that are so long."
