

Dear Ruth
DirectorWilliam D. Russell
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Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
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Cast

Joan Caulfield
Ruth Wilkins

William Holden
Lt. William Seacroft

Mona Freeman
Miriam Wilkins

Edward Arnold
Judge Harry Wilkins

Billy De Wolfe
Albert Kummer

Mary Philips
Mrs. Edie Wilkins

Virginia Welles
Martha Seacroft

Marietta Canty
Dora

Irving Bacon
Delivery Man

Kevin O'Morrison
Sgt. Chuck Vincent

Isabel Randolph
Mrs. Teaker
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