Once Upon a Honeymoon
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| Once Upon a Honeymoon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Leo McCarey |
| Produced by | Leo McCarey (uncredited) |
| Written by | Sheridan Gibney (story and screenplay) Leo McCarey (story) |
| Starring | Ginger Rogers Cary Grant Walter Slezak Albert Dekker Albert Bassermann |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 27, 1942 (US) |
| Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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- This article is about a 1942 film. For the 1956 short film, see Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956 film).
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) is a romantic film starring Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant and Walter Slezak, directed by Leo McCarey, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
[edit] Plot summary
In the days leading up to World War II, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque performer masquerading as English aristocrat "Katherine Butt-Smith", is about to marry Austrian Baron Von Luber (Walter Slezak). Foreign correspondent Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant) suspects Von Luber of being a Nazi sympathizer and tries unsuccessfully to get information from Katie by deceit, but is warned off by Von Luber.
Undaunted, Pat follows the couple to Prague, where they get married. After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, the Von Lubers travel to Warsaw, where the baron sells arms to Polish General Borelski (Albert Bassermann). When the Germans invade Poland, the weapons prove to be defective. The trail of destruction following her husband's travels finally convinces Katie that Pat was right about the baron. She and Pat flee the country together and follow the baron to Norway, Holland and Belgium (all of which subsequently fall to the Germans) and then to Paris.
Katie is contacted by Gaston Le Blanc (Albert Dekker), an American counterintelligence agent posing as a photographer, and persuaded to return to the baron to find out what he is doing in France. Von Luber becomes suspicious due to Katie's persistent questioning and threatens to turn her over to the secret police unless Pat agrees to broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda. Pat does go on the air, but cleverly manages to make it look as if the baron is trying to overthrow Hitler. Von Luber is arrested, and Pat and Katie sneak away.
They board a ship for America, but Katie later runs into Von Luber on board; the baron was able to talk his way out of his troubles. Now he is on his way to the United States to continue his subversive activities. They struggle and Von Luber falls overboard. The ship turns around to search for him, but Katie tells Pat that her husband cannot swim.
