Never Wave at a WAC

Never Wave at a WAC

Directed by	Norman Z. McLeod
Written by	Ken Englund
Story by	Frederick Kohner Frederick Brady
Produced by	Frederick Brisson
Starring	Rosalind Russell Paul Douglas Marie Wilson
Cinematography	William H. Daniels
Edited by	Stanley E. Johnson
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Production company	Independent Artists Pictures
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	January 28, 1953
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.6 million (US)^[1]

Never Wave at a WAC is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, and starring Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas and Marie Wilson.^[2]^[3]

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Plot

Divorced socialite Jo McBain, daughter of United States Senator Reynolds, would like to join her boyfriend in Paris where he has been transferred with two other military comrades. She speaks with her father, who has the idea of her joining the army and getting her an officer's commission in the Women's Army Corps so she can be transferred to Paris. He sells her this idea, telling her that she would start as a general. Her wealthy and spoiled manners are crushed immediately, when she arrives at basic training camp she discovers that she is to start at the bottom. Her father is involved in the telephone chain of people making the decision.

Her ex-husband Andrew McBain is working as an Army uniforms designer and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of girls who are testing polar equipment. After she has had enough of her ex-husband's silly pranks, she blows up at her commanding officers and is to be dismissed from the Army. Her contrite ex-husband admits his faults to the disciplinary hearing, but Jo confesses that she was faking being a good soldier so she could go to Paris and be with her boyfriend. She leaves the Army, but she makes a lifelong friend in Clara, who tells Jo she will ask her boyfriend to marry her.

When she leaves the Army, Jo watches as new recruits are brought in. She realizes that she's still in love with her ex-husband (and he with her). She decides to reenlist back into the Army, a genuine attempt at being a good soldier this time, willing to do what the Army asks her to do. She says that later, after her graduation, she may be stationed near Andrew, her ex-husband.^[4]