Sailor's Lady

Sailor's Lady

50,000 SAILORS... Can't Go Wrong!

NR 1940 · 67 min · ★ 6.5 · Comedy

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Directed by Allan Dwan · Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan

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Nancy Kelly Sally Gilroy
Jon Hall Danny Malone
Joan Davis Myrtle
Dana Andrews Scrappy Wilson
Mary Nash Miss Purvis
Buster Crabbe Rodney (as Larry Crabbe)
Kay Aldridge Georgine (as Katharine Aldridge)
Harry Shannon Father McGann
Wally Vernon Goofer
Selmer Jackson Executive Officer
Ward Bond Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
Peggy Ryan Ellen

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