The Voice of the Turtle

Sally Middleton is a woman who wants to act. She is looking for work on Broadway. She has just broken up with her boyfriend. Because of it she decides to keep away from love. Her friend Olive has a date. The date is a soldier on leave. The soldier is called Bill Page. But Olive chooses to go out with someone else. Bill is left with nobody. He has nowhere to go either. He spends the weekend at Sally’s apartment. The two of them stay in the same place for a few days. Sally tries to hold to her own decision. The film was adapted from the stage play of the same name by John Van Druten. Ronald Reagan and Eleanor Parker take the leads, with Eve Arden also in the cast, in Irving Rapper’s American film of 1947.