What kind of comedy drama is the Americanization of Emily?”
Plot Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner) is a “dog-robber,” a personable but conniving personal assistant to American Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas). His job is to keep his boss and other high ranking officers supplied with luxuries and amiable English women. Under stress since the death of his wife, Jessup cracks up while devising a plan to prevent the Navy from being overshadowed in the D-Day invasion by the Army and its Air Corps, which in his mind could lead to a unification of the services and the “scrapping” of the Navy. In his unbalanced state, Jessup comes up with a grand idea: “The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor.” He commissions a film to document that fact. The casualty would then be buried in a “Tomb of the Unknown Sailor.” The bemused Charlie, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a driver from the motor pool, war widow Emily Barham (Julie Andrews), who has lost her husband, brother and father in the war. No longer being able to bear th
The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 American comedy-drama war film directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Paddy Chayefsky, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie. Set in London in 1944 during World War II, in the weeks leading up to D-Day, the black-and-white film stars James Garner, Julie Andrews and Melvyn Douglas and features James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell and Keenan Wynn. Both Garner[1][2] and Andrews[3][2] consider it their favorite of the films they appeared in. Contents [hide] * 1 Plot * 2 Cast * 3 Soundtrack * 4 Awards nominations * 5 Comparison with the novel * 6 Notes * 7 External links [edit] Plot Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner) is a “dog-robber,” a personable but conniving personal assistant to American Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas). His job is to keep his boss and other high ranking officers supplied with luxuries and amiable English women. Under stress since the death of his wife, Jessup cracks up while de
