Eddie Albert

Erskine Cooney (played by Eddie Albert). Although Cooney’s weaknesses as an officer are widely known—especially by Lieut. Joe Costa (Jack Palance)—he is kept in charge by Lieut. Col. Clyde Bartlett (Lee Marvin), who hopes to curry favor with Cooney’s influential father after the war. When Cooney refuses to reinforce…

…the peddler Ali Hakim (Eddie Albert). After a series of romantic complications, however, Will wins Ado Annie’s hand, and Curley marries Laurey.

Eddie Albert won high praise as Bradley’s photographer, who secretly trails the couple. Frank Capra was supposed to direct the film but backed out when he discovered that blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo was using Ian McLellan Hunter as his “front.” Ironically, Hunter was awarded an…