Tender Comrade

Tender Comrade is a 1943 black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are away at war.

The film stars Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, and Kim Hunter and was directed by Edward Dmytryk.

The film's title comes from a line in Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "My Wife" first published in Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896).

With their husbands off fighting in World War II, Jo and her co-workers struggle to pay living expenses.

[5] Rogers' fee was $150,000 plus ten percent of the profits over gross receipts of $1.5 million; by 1953 this had earned her $105,000.