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Without Reservations ()

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En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
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Kit Madden
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Captain 'Rusty' Thomas
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Lieutenant 'Dink' Watson
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Connie
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Soldier
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Ortega
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Baldwin
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Dolores Ortega
Fernando Alvarado ...
Mexican Boy
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Salesman
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Louella Parsons (as Miss Louella Parsons)
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Chauffeur (uncredited)
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Train Passenger (uncredited)
Jose Alvarado ...
Mexican Boy (uncredited)
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Dining Car Waiter (uncredited)
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Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Lois Austin ...
Senator (uncredited)
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Train Conductor (uncredited)
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Western Union Telegraph Boy (uncredited)
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Soldier (uncredited)
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Jack Benny (uncredited)
John Bleifer ...
Coal Heaver (uncredited)
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Mrs. Bertha Randall (uncredited)
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WAC (uncredited)
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Paul Gill (uncredited)
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Corporal (uncredited)
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Pullman Conductor (uncredited)
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French Officer (uncredited)
James Conaty ...
Train Passenger (uncredited)
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Soldier (uncredited)
Roger Creed ...
Marine (uncredited)
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Man with Book (uncredited)
Harold Davis ...
Marine (uncredited)
Sid Davis ...
Marine (uncredited)
Dick Dickerson ...
Young Sailor (uncredited)
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Redcap (uncredited)
Tay Dunn ...
Navy Ensign (uncredited)
George Economides ...
Mexican Boy (uncredited)
Michael Economides ...
Mexican Boy (uncredited)
Herbert Espinosa ...
Mexican Boy (uncredited)
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Philip Jerome (uncredited)
Harry Evans ...
Traveler (uncredited)
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Club Car Waiter (uncredited)
Jon Gilbreath ...
Navy NCO (uncredited)
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Girl (uncredited)
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Alma (uncredited)
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Cary Grant (uncredited)
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Porter (uncredited)
Paul Gustine ...
Traveler (uncredited)
Thelma Gyrath ...
WAC (uncredited)
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Window-Washer (uncredited)
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Lois (uncredited)
Henry Hastings ...
Waiter (uncredited)
Joe Haworth ...
Marine (uncredited)
Harry Hayden ...
Harry Randall (uncredited)
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Newsreel (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
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Sarah (uncredited)
Ralph Hubbard ...
Sailor (uncredited)
Tom Hubbard ...
Marine (uncredited)
Brooks Hunt ...
Army Lieutenant (uncredited)
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Car Porter (uncredited)
Toshikazu Kase ...
Newsreel (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Reporter (uncredited)
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Train Passenger (uncredited)
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Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
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U.S. Senator / Train Passenger (uncredited)
Jean Koehler ...
Western Union Operator (uncredited)
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Mervyn LeRoy (uncredited)
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Army Lieutenant (uncredited)
Rose Mary Lopez ...
Mexican Girl (uncredited)
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Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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Baldwin's Secretary (uncredited)
Junius Matthews ...
Charlie Potter (uncredited)
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Freddy (uncredited)
Peter Michael ...
Marine (uncredited)
Chef Milani ...
Diner Captain (uncredited)
Art Miles ...
Truck Driver (uncredited)
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Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Henry Mirelez ...
Mexican Boy (uncredited)
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Redcap (uncredited)
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Dolores Moran (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
William O'Leary ...
Candy Butcher (uncredited)
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Conductor (uncredited)
Jack Parker ...
Soldier (uncredited)
Bob Pepper ...
Man (uncredited)
Lorin Raker ...
Mr. Klotch (uncredited)
Verne Richards ...
Brakeman (uncredited)
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Girl in Negligee (uncredited)
Al Rosen ...
Train Mechanic (uncredited)
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Timothy Helgelander (uncredited)
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U.S. Senator (uncredited)
Wallace Scott ...
Albuquerque Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Bill Shannon ...
Marine (uncredited)
Mamoru Shigemitsu ...
Newsreel (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
Robin Short ...
Reporter (uncredited)
Barbara Smith ...
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Warren Smith ...
Chauffeur (uncredited)
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Soldier Leaving Train Station (uncredited)
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Turnkey (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
Miguel Tapia ...
Mexican Boy (uncredited)
Bill Udell ...
Navy NCO (uncredited)
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Sue (uncredited)
Nanette Vallon ...
Reporter (uncredited)
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Mexican Beauty (uncredited)
Henry Vroom ...
Soldier (uncredited)
Bob Wallace ...
Marine (uncredited)
Fleet White ...
Marine (uncredited)
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Marine (uncredited)
Russ Whiteman ...
Sailor (uncredited)
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Jack (uncredited)
Jane Wiley ...
Manicurist (uncredited)
Charles Williams ...
Louis Burt (uncredited)
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Charlie Gibbs (uncredited)
Jean Wong ...
Reporter (uncredited)
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Pullman Conductor (uncredited)

Directed by

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Mervyn LeRoy

Written by

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Andrew Solt ... (screenplay)
 
Jane Allen ... (novel) and
Mae Livingston ... (novel)

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Jesse Lasky Jr. ... producer (as Jesse L. Lasky)

Music by

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Roy Webb

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Milton R. Krasner ... director of photography (as Milton Krasner)

Editing by

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Jack Ruggiero

Editorial Department

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Harold Palmer ... montage

Art Direction by

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Ralph Berger
Albert S. D'Agostino

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James Altwies ... (set decorations)
Darrell Silvera ... (set decorations)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Lloyd Richards ... assistant director

Sound Department

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Clem Portman ... sound
Francis M. Sarver ... sound

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Russell A. Cully ... special effects
Harold E. Stine ... special effects (as Harold Stine)
Vernon L. Walker ... special effects

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Linwood G. Dunn ... transparency projection shots (uncredited)
Albert Simpson ... matte painter (uncredited)

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Harry Davis ... second camera operator (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Adrian ... clothes: Miss Colbert
Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department

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C. Bakaleinikoff ... musical director
Gil Grau ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Earl B. Mounce ... music mixer (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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William H. Cannon ... production assistant
Jesse L. Lasky ... presenter
Walter MacEwen ... presenter
William Hebert ... advertising and publicity director (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author. Written by Jim Beaver

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Taglines Transcontinental Romance - Unlimited!!! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Thanks, God, I'll Take it From Here (United States)
  • New York-Los Angeles (France)
  • Sans réserve (France)
  • Sucedió en el tren (Spain)
  • 最佳人选 (China, Mandarin title)
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Runtime
  • 107 min
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Budget $1,683,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Mervyn LeRoy's tinsel town connections made for a few interesting cameos in Without Reservations. Look for Jack Benny as an autograph seeker in the train station. Louella Parsons plays a Hollywood radio gossiper. Cary Grant also appears for a dance sequence. Apparently Grant walked by the set one day during filming and LeRoy asked him to come in. Even the director himself makes an on-screen appearance, dining with Claudette Colbert. Dolores Moran and Raymond Burr (an uncredited "Paul Gill") also make uncredited cameo appearances. See more »
Goofs Just before Louella Parsons is seen in the radio studio, an exterior shot shows a building with the name NBC, but when Parsons is at the mic, it is marked ABC. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Claudette Colbert (2015). See more »
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Quotes Rusty: Have you heard of some fellas, who first came over to this country? You know what they found? They found a howling wilderness, with summers too hot, and winters freezing. Did they have insurance for their old age, for their crops, for their homes? They did not. They looked at the land and the forest and the rivers they looked at their wives, their kids, and their houses. Then they looked up at the sky and said thanks God, we'll take it from here. They were men!
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