The Americanization of Emily

The Americanization of Emily 1964 is an American comedydrama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas and James Coburn, and loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie, who had been a SeaBee officer on DDay. Both Garner and Andrews consider it their personal favorite of their films.

Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison James Garner, United States Naval Reserve, is a cynical and highly efficient adjutant to Rear Admiral William Jessup Melvyn Douglas in 1944 London. Madisons job as a dog robber is to keep his boss and other highranking officers supplied with luxury goods and amiable Englishwomen. He falls in love with a driver from the motor pool, Emily Barham Julie Andrews, who has lost her husband, brother, and father in the war. Madisons pleasureseeking American lifestyle amid wartime rationing both fascinates and disgusts Emily, but she does not want to lose another loved one to war and finds the practicing coward Madison irresistible.Profoundly despondent since the death of his wife, Jessup obsesses over the US Army and its Air Corps overshadowing the Navy in the forthcoming DDay invasion. The mentally unstable admiral decides that The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor. A film will document the death, and the casualty will be buried in a Tomb of the Unknown Sailor. ........

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