What disguise does Cary Grant's character use in I Was a Male War Bride?

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Howard Hawks stands at right, speaking with actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in cowboy costumes on the set of the western film Rio Bravo. — Howard Hawks Howard Hawks (right) directing (from left to right) John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in *Rio Bravo* (1959).

In the 1949 film I Was a Male War Bride, directed by Howard Hawks, the character played by Cary Grant—a French army officer—is forced to masquerade as a woman to accompany his American wife, who serves in the Women’s Army Corps, to the United States.1