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4 unusual facts about Sonny Tufts


Government Girl

Government Girl is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland and Sonny Tufts.

Automobile engineer Ed Browne (Sonny Tufts) comes to Washington to appear in front of the War Construction Board.

The Well-Groomed Bride

Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years.

The Well-Groomed Bride is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, and Sonny Tufts.



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Government Girl

Sonny Tufts, borrowed from Paramount to star, was paired with Olivia De Havilland, who had run into studio politics at Warner Bros. on her last feature, Princess O'Rourke (1943) that had resulted in first, her suspension, and subsequent "assignment" by studio boss Jack Warner to producer David O. Selznick in return for Ingrid Bergman, whom Warner cast in Casablanca (1942).