Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys!

…Shulman served as scriptwriter, and Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1957), which was filmed in 1958 and featured Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Joan Collins. Shulman also wrote the Broadway play The Tender Trap (1954), which comically portrayed the pitfalls of marriage and in 1955 was made into a motion…

Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Joan Collins, was McCarey’s first comedy in 10 years. It had scattered moments of proficiency, but it failed to capture the madcap humour of Max Shulman’s best-selling book. McCarey’s final film, Satan Never…

…successful films, including (opposite Newman) Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), From the Terrace (1960), and Paris Blues (1961) and (opposite Marlon Brando) Sidney Lumet’s The Fugitive Kind (1960). After a two-year hiatus to care for her two young daughters, Woodward returned to Hollywood in 1963, but she did not…