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Tender Comrade (1943) is a black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are away at war. The film starred Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, and Kim Hunter and was directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was later used by the HUAC as evidence of Dalton Trumbo spreading communist propaganda. Trumbo was subsequently blacklisted. The film's title comes from a line in Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "My Wife" first published in Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896).
Original Release
05/30/1944
US Release
06/01/1944
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Ginger Rogers | Jo Jones |
| Robert Ryan | Chris Jones |
| Ruth Hussey | Barbara Thomas |
| Patricia Collinge | Helen Stacey |
| Mady Christians | Manya Lodge |
| Kim Hunter | Doris Dumbrowski |
| Jane Darwell | Mrs. Henderson |
| Richard Martin | Mike Dumbrowski |
| Patti Brill | Western Union Girl |
| Tom Burton | Minor Role |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Ginger Rogers | Jo Jones |
| Robert Ryan | Chris Jones |
| Ruth Hussey | Barbara Thomas |
| Patricia Collinge | Helen Stacey |
| Mady Christians | Manya Lodge |
| Kim Hunter | Doris Dumbrowski |
| Jane Darwell | Mrs. Henderson |
| Richard Martin | Mike Dumbrowski |
| Patti Brill | Western Union Girl |
| Tom Burton | Minor Role |
| Donald Davis | Boy |
| Jane Farrar | Minor Role |
| Edward Fielding | Doctor |
| Mary Forbes | Mrs. Flanagan - Jo's Mother |
| Richard Gaines | Waldo Pierson |
| Euline Martin | Baby |
| Freddie Mercer | Boy |
| Mike Road | Minor Role |
| Claire Whitney | Nurse |
| Robert J. Anderson | Boy |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| David Hempstead | Producer |
| Sherman Todd | Producer |
