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Release Date: 1964

Cast: Steven Franken, James Coburn, Edmon Ryan, Liz Fraser, Paul Newlan, James Garner, Gary Cockrell, Melvyn Douglas, Joyce Grenfell, Ed Binns, John Crawford, William Windom ...MORE

Cast: Steven Franken, James Coburn, Edmon Ryan, Liz Fraser, Paul Newlan, James Garner, Gary Cockrell, Melvyn Douglas, Joyce Grenfell, Ed Binns, John Crawford, William Windom, Sharon Tate, Julie Andrews, Douglas Henderson, Keenan Wynn ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Black-and-white, Comedy, War film, Black comedy, Romance Film

The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day. Set in London in 1944 during World War II, in the weeks leading up to D-Day, the black-and-white film stars James Garner, Julie Andrews and Melvyn Douglas and features James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell and Keenan Wynn. Both Garner and Andrews consider it their personal favorite of their films. LCDR Charlie Madison (James Garner), USNR, is a cynical and... MORE

The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie who had been a SeaBee officer on D-Day. Set in London in 1944 during World War II, in the weeks leading up to D-Day, the black-and-white film stars James Garner, Julie Andrews and Melvyn Douglas and features James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell and Keenan Wynn. Both Garner and Andrews consider it their personal favorite of their films. LCDR Charlie Madison (James Garner), USNR, is a cynical and highly efficient adjutant to RADM William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas) in London. Madison's job as a dog robber is to keep his boss and other high-ranking 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. Madison's sybaritic, "American" lifestyle amid wartime scarcity both fascinates and disgusts Emily, but she does not want to lose another loved one to war and finds the "practicing coward" Madison irresistible. Under stress since the death of his wife, LESS