The Voice of the Turtle (One for the Book) (1947)
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John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all likelihood, stars Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan were both second choices. Reagan is a returning GI who falls in love with Parker, an ingenuous young actress. Circumstances… More John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all likelihood, stars Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan were both second choices. Reagan is a returning GI who falls in love with Parker, an ingenuous young actress. Circumstances require the hero and heroine to share the same apartment, though the implications don't get much farther than the knowing wisecracks of supporting player Eve Arden. The original play's stars were Elliott Nugent and the matchless Margaret Sullavan, and both Reagan and Parker seem overwhelmed by the responsibility of filling those shoes. Nothing in The Voice of the Turtle (reissue title: One for the Book) is quite as funny as the film's outtakes, which were widely distributed during the Reagan presidency on the basis of a scene in which an increasingly testy Reagan is unable to zip up his trousers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Irving Rapper
- Genres
- Comedy
G,
- In Theaters
- Dec 25, 1947 Wide
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Cast
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Ronald Reagan
as Sgt. Bill Page
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Eleanor Parker
as Sally Middleton
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Eve Arden
as Olive Lashbrooke
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Wayne Morris
as Cmdr. Ned Burling
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Kent Smith
as Kenneth Bartlett
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John Emery
as George Harrington
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Erskine Sanford
as Storekeeper
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John Holland
as Henry Atherton
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Ernest Anderson
as Elevator Man
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Louis Austin
as Theater Party
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Peter Camlin
as French-speaking person
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Tristram Coffin
as Theater Party
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Bunty Cutler
as Girl at Telephone
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Sarah Edwards
as Woman
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Ross Ford
as Soda Clerk
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William Gould
as Man
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Doris Kemper
as Woman in Delicatessen
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Douglas Kennedy
as Naval Officer
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Philip Morris
as Doorman
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Nino Pepitone
as Headwaiter
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Nick Stewart [Nicodemus]
as Elevator Boy
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Helen Wallace
as Woman
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Janet Warren
as Part of a theater party
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Frank Wilcox
as Stanley Blake
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Brian O'Hara
as Box-Office Clerk
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Richard Bartell
as Ticket Agent
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Alan Foster
as Vendor
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Robert Spencer
as Boy
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Bernard DeRoux
as French-Speaking Waiter
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Suzanne Dulier
as French-Speaking Couple
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Jack Lee
as Director
