Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Acting
Ginger Rogers proves she's more than Fred Astaire's dance partner.
Direction
Dmytryk builds domestic tension like a pressure cooker.
Writing
Dalton Trumbo's script sneaks radical ideas past 1944 censors.
Director
Edward Dmytryk
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
Robert J. Anderson
Boy (uncredited)
Patti Brill
Western Union Girl (uncredited)
Edward Fielding
Doctor (uncredited)
Mary Forbes
Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Richard Gaines
Waldo Pierson (uncredited)
Freddie Mercer
Boy (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Trumbo's script was later cited during his HUAC testimony as 'communist propaganda' for showing women managing money collectively.
The film's title comes from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem about soldiers sharing bread — the studio fought hard against it.
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