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* ButtMonkey: Henri, who spends the whole movie as the butt of the joke, continually being laughed at, mocked, and put in embarrassing situations.
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* LingerieScene: For the wedding night Catherine puts on a peignoir that was about as daring as it got for 1940s Hollywood under the Hays Code. (They soon get interrupted.)
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* CockADoodleDawn: A rooster is shown crowing, and waking Henri, after he has spent an uneasy night sleeping in a chair after accidentally locking himself in Catherine's room.
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* ComfortingComforter: How can you tell that Henri has genuine feelings for Catherine? He doesn't just tuck her in when she falls asleep, he closes the windows, and tilts the lamp away so that it isn't shining at her.
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* CueTheRain: It's dark, Catherine and Henri are lost, and they are struggling to figure out which road leads to their destination. Just to make things worse, rain starts pouring as Henri has shimmered up a pole in order to read a road marker.


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* InevitableWaterfall: Henri and Catherine borrow a rowboat to make it to their destination because the roads are blocked. What do they run into? A waterfall, of course. They barely avoid going over when a man on the bridge above throws them a rope.
* LegFocus: Catherine gets a cramp after they get out of the rowboat, which naturally leads her to hike up her pants and expose a bare calf. Henri is very interested.
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-->'''Catherine''': He's a lot of fun to fight with.
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* NoodleIncident: When Catherine suggests that she and Henri try and be friends, she specifically suggests forgetting about "what happened in the wine cellar."

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* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: Henri approaches the guard post at an Allied armed forces office building in post-war Germany. He asks the guard for directions to the "OICAMGWAC". (Being Cary Grant, he reads it rhythmically and deliberately so it sounds like "O.I.C. - A.M.G. - W.A.C.") Directed to the first floor, he finds office doors labeled "WAIRCO" (which he reads as "War Administration Industrial Relations Coordinator's Office") and "SOSDPPDD" ("Service of Supplies Displaced Persons Property Disposal Department") before finding the ladies restroom. He begins to misinterpret this as "Labor Administration Department Inter..." when a WAC (Women's Army Corps) tech corporal exits. She directs him across the hall to yet another door labeled "CDMTWR". The meanings of the first and last acronyms are not explained.



* FunWithAcronyms: Inverted. Henri is in an Army office building trying to decipher the mysterious acronyms on various office doors. He puzzles out "WAIRCO" and 'SOSDPPDD", then gets to "LADIES". He's thinking it's something "Labor Administration Department" when a woman emerges from what is of course the women's restroom.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Inverted. Henri is in an Army office building trying to decipher the mysterious acronyms on various office doors. He puzzles out "WAIRCO" and 'SOSDPPDD", then gets to "LADIES". He's thinking it's something "Labor Administration Department" when a woman emerges from what is of course the women's restroom.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: The first half of the movie is one long extended vitriolic argument between the main characters, right up until they confess their love.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: The first half of the movie is basically one long extended vitriolic argument between the main characters, Henri and Catherine, right up until they confess their love.
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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and First Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles in trying to get married.

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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and First Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love love, and encounter various bureaucratic hassles in trying to get married.
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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and First Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married.

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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and First Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles in trying to get married.
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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married.

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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and First Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The two lovers confess their feelings in a haystack. [[SexyDiscretionShot Cut Scene]]. Then they arrive back at their post covered in hay...almost as if they'd rolled in it.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The two lovers confess their feelings GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in a haystack. [[SexyDiscretionShot Cut Scene]]. Then they arrive back at their post covered in hay...almost as if they'd rolled in it.the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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A 1949 ScrewballComedy directed by Creator/HowardHawks, starring Creator/CaryGrant and Ann Sheridan.

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A 1949 ScrewballComedy directed by Creator/HowardHawks, starring Creator/CaryGrant and Ann Sheridan.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: CaryGrant doesn't even try to fake a French accent, but it's slyly camoflauged as his character having a perfect ''American'' accent.

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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: CaryGrant Creator/CaryGrant doesn't even try to fake a French accent, but it's slyly camoflauged as his character having a perfect ''American'' accent.
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* WorldWarTwo: The movie is set in Germany, immediately after the end of the war.

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->''"I am an alien spouse of female military personnel en route to the United States under public law 271 of the Congress."''
-->--'''Henri Rochard'''



Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married. When Catherine's army unit gets recalled back to the USA, things get worse: the only way they have to stay together is by invoking a law allowing the spouse of American army personnel to enter the country--the War Bride's act. [[HilarityEnsues Zany gender-confusing antics follow]].

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Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and Lieutenant Catherine Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married.

When Catherine's army unit gets recalled back to the USA, things get worse: the only way they have to stay together is by invoking a law allowing the spouse of American army personnel to enter the country--the War Bride's act. [[HilarityEnsues Zany gender-confusing antics follow]].


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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The film was adapted from a memoir by the real-life Henri Rochard, a Belgian and former POW who married an American nurse he met in the hospital after getting hit by a car while serving as a liaison officer during the Nuremberg trials.
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Captain Henri Rochard of the French army, and Lieutenant Catherine Gates, of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married. When Catherine's army unit gets recalled back to the USA, things get worse: the only way they have to stay together is by invoking a law allowing the spouse of American army personnel to enter the country--the War Bride's act. [[HilarityEnsues Zany gender-confusing antics follow]].

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A 1949 ScrewballComedy directed by Creator/HowardHawks, starring Creator/CaryGrant and Ann Sheridan.

Captain Henri Rochard (Grant), of the French army, and Lieutenant Catherine Gates, Gates (Sheridan), of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married. When Catherine's army unit gets recalled back to the USA, things get worse: the only way they have to stay together is by invoking a law allowing the spouse of American army personnel to enter the country--the War Bride's act. [[HilarityEnsues Zany gender-confusing antics follow]].
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Captain Henri Rochard of the French army, and Lieutenant Catherine Gates, of the American, are assigned a mission together to stop a German high-level scientist in postwar Germany. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and encounter various bureaucratic hassles trying to get married. When Catherine's army unit gets recalled back to the USA, things get worse: the only way they have to stay together is by invoking a law allowing the spouse of American army personnel to enter the country--the War Bride's act. [[HilarityEnsues Zany gender-confusing antics follow]].


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* DisguisedInDrag: Henri resorts to dressing as a woman to get on the ship with his wife.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Cary Grant doesn't even try to fake a French accent, but it's slyly camoflauged as his character having a perfect ''American'' accent.

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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Cary Grant CaryGrant doesn't even try to fake a French accent, but it's slyly camoflauged as his character having a perfect ''American'' accent.
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* DisguisedInDrag



* WorldWarTwo: The movie is set in Germany, immediately after the end of the war.
* ValuesDissonance: A lot of the humor relies on the audience thinking that a husband being relegated to the status of military dependent on his wife is one degree away from a sex change.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory

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* WorldWarTwo: The movie is set in Germany, immediately after the end of the war.
* ValuesDissonance: A lot of the humor relies on the audience thinking that a husband being relegated to the status of military dependent on his wife is one degree away from a sex change.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory
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!!This film contains examples of:

* ArmedFarces: It's a story about the incredible heights (or depths) military bureacracy can reach, only slightly exaggerated.
* BelligerentSexualTension: The first half of the movie is one long extended vitriolic argument between the main characters, right up until they confess their love.
* DisguisedInDrag
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The two lovers confess their feelings in a haystack. [[SexyDiscretionShot Cut Scene]]. Then they arrive back at their post covered in hay...almost as if they'd rolled in it.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Cary Grant doesn't even try to fake a French accent, but it's slyly camoflauged as his character having a perfect ''American'' accent.
* WorldWarTwo: The movie is set in Germany, immediately after the end of the war.
* ValuesDissonance: A lot of the humor relies on the audience thinking that a husband being relegated to the status of military dependent on his wife is one degree away from a sex change.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory

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