Government Girl is a 1943 American romantic-comedy film, produced and directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland and Sonny Tufts.

Ed is unaware that the same room is reserved by Elizabeth "Smokey" Allard for her friend May who will marry an army sergeant, Joe Bates, that very night.

A series of unfortunate events that night leads to Joe being arrested by M.P.s, and he leaves a borrowed motorcycle behind in the hands of Smokey.

When Ed announces his plan to make the aircraft factories more effective, producing double the amount of bombers each year, Smokey warns him not to stray too far off government recommendations.

Both Barbara Stanwyck and Ginger Rogers turned down the role of Elizabeth, and Olivia de Havilland was cast.

Considering her ongoing lawsuit against her studio was the reason for her being punished with her assignment to Government Girl, she was vociferous that she did not enjoy the experience.

[13] Bosley Crowther in The New York Times praised Nichols as a "first-class screen-writer" but as a director, "In some spots, his film is amusing.

He also found, "the plot takes such sudden twists and sideslips, the pace is so uneven, the styles are so jumbled and the story, by and large, is so topically stale that the film has the look of an effort of a directorial amateur.

It never gets to grips with the actualities of its setting or its basic plot problems, and its climax in the speech to the Senators rings as falsely as anything could.