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Under most circumstances you'd be inclined to think that Claudette (Colbert) and Veronica (Lady of the Lake) would be enough to soothe the distemper of any womanless G.I. Somehow somebody in the film capital (still Hollywood) got them mixed up in a hysterical saga of Army nurses in the Philippines, and the attempt to give these women their due flared into a holocaust of disranged emotions.

The Moguls are never satisfied, or so it seems. Here they had the story of women who did what few had done before, enough action and sex appeal for a carload of war pictures. And there was an entirely new angle, the simple fact of women at war, on a desperate battle front. Were they satisfied? They were not.

They had to drag in, and by the ears (they should have used "Ears" Gable, a real fighting man, anyway) two robust gents with just enough brass to make it smooth sailing, and in the ensuing stampede among the nurses to get and forget their men, nurses just weren't nurses.

"So Proudly We Hall" is the name they have given it, but if the Moguls had known what they were doing it would have been "So Loudly We Male." Something like that.