Sailor's Lady (1940)

Director
Allan Dwan

Main cast
Nancy Kelly; Jon Hall; Joan Davis; Dana Andrews; Mary Nash

Genres
Comedy

Description
Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) 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.


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