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No Leave, No Love
No Leave, No Love
Directed by	Charles Martin
Written by	Charles Martin; László Kardos;
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Starring	Van Johnson; Keenan Wynn; Pat Kirkwood;
Cinematography	Harold Rosson; Robert Surtees;
Edited by	Conrad A. Nervig
Music by	George Stoll
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	October 3, 1946;
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,778,000
Box office	$3,785,000

No Leave, No Love is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Charles Martin and starring Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Pat Kirkwood.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Mike, a Marine and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, returns with his pal Slinky from fighting in the Pacific during World War II. Mike expects to marry his hometown sweetheart; his mother wants to tell him in person that she has married someone else. Most of the film involves the efforts of Susan, a popular radio personality, to keep him from finding out or going home until his mother makes it to New York from Indiana. Susan and Mike fall in love; misunderstandings ensue. The shenanigans of the implausibly unpleasant and larcenous Slinky fill out the action, and the musical element is provided by several appearances of then-famous performers in nightclubs and on Susan’s radio show. The story is bookended by Mike’s arrival in the waiting room of a maternity ward and the birth of his and Susan’s son. Slinky gets the last word when Rosalind announces that she is pregnant.

Cast

Van Johnson as Sergeant Michael Hanlon
Keenan Wynn as Slinky Edwards
Pat Kirkwood as Susan Malby Duncan
Edward Arnold as Hobart Canford 'Popsie' Stiles
Leon Ames as Colonel R.G. Elliott
Marie Wilson as Rosalind
Marina Koshetz as Countess Elena Marina Strogoff
Selena Royle as Mrs Hanlon
Wilson Wood as Mr Crawley
Vince Barnett as Ben
Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra as Themselves
Frank Sugar Chile Robinson as The boy on the piano
Lillian Yarbo as Maid (uncredited)

Reception

The film earned $2,891,000 in the US and Canada and $894,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $629,000.^[1]^[4]

Critical response

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times writes in his review: "No Leave, No Love starts rambling along about the second reel, when Van Johnson, as the marine hero, turns things over to his pal, Keenan Wynn. And from there on it is mainly a matter of how comical Mr. Wynn can be with little more helpful material than his sense of humor and a big cigar. It must be said to Mr. Wynn's credit—and to the credit of his director, perhaps—that he does pull some fairly funny business in a strictly low-comedy vein, but it is all rather forced and capricious. And it, too, has its saturation points.^[5]