Faithful in My Fashion

Directed by Sidney Salkow

A sailor on leave causes problems at the department store his girlfriend manages.

1946 1h 21m Drama TV-G

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Sidney Salkow

Director

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Donna Reed

Jean Kendrick

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Tom Drake

Jeff Compton

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Edward Everett Ho..

Hiram Dilworthy

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Spring Byington

Miss Swanson

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Sig Ruman

Professor Boris Rimin..

FULL SYNOPSIS

Hoping to find everything just as he had left it four years ago, soldier Jeff Compton, who is home on a two-week furlough, visits the New York City department store in which he worked and surprises his former co-worker and sweetheart Jean Kendrick with a kiss. Jean, who is now an executive with the store, has since fallen out of love with Jeff, however, and is dating Walter Medcraft in the accounting department. As Jean never returned the engagement ring that Jeff sent to her while he was away, Jeff believes that she is still his fiancé. Realizing that Jeff is about to get his heart broken, Dilworthy and other department employees band together and, with Jean's consent, work diligently to prevent Jeff from learning the truth about his failed engagement. While Walter is out of town on business, Jean is temporarily assigned to the stock room to keep her away from the other store employees, who might reveal the truth. Jean tries to make the best of her temporary demotion while clumsily hiding her ineptitude at menial stockroom tasks, but trouble mounts when Jeff makes plans for an immediate wedding. After stalling Jeff's rush to marriage, Jean makes hasty arrangements to move back into her former, and more modest, West Tenth street apartment so that Jeff will not suspect that she become more successful. Professor Boris Riminoffsky, a music teacher and a romantic idealist who is currently living in Jean's old apartment, gladly gives up his apartment for two weeks when he lear...

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By 1946, MGM contract player Donna Reed had been in films for five years and had appeared in 18 films, advancing from bit parts to supporting roles, mostly in "B" pictures, and receiving little notice. 1945 had been a good year for her. She appeared in only two films instead of her usual four or five, and both were "A" pictures, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and They Were Expendable. The latter was a war drama for which she received excellent reviews playing John Wayne's love interest. In the romantic comedy Faithful in My Fashion (1946), Reed was the leading lady. She plays a department store executive whose fiancé comes home on a two-week furlough. While he's been at war, she not only has advanced in her career, she's fallen for another man. But co-workers persuade her to pretend that everything's the same as before so as not to spoil her fiancé's leave. She bumbles ineptly through a stockroom job, and moves back into her old, more modest apartment. Then, of course, the romantic meddlers conspire to keep the couple together. A slight but appealing film, Faithful in My Fashion's biggest strength is the supporting cast of some of the top character actors of the era: dithering Edward Everett Horton, wise grandpa Harry Davenport, blustering Sig Ruman, fluttery Spring Byington, and no-nonsense Margaret Hamilton. The chemistry between Reed and Tom Drake, who plays the soldier, is also strong. Drake had become America's favorite boy next door when he played opposite Judy Garla...