The Lieutenant Wore Skirts is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North, and Rita Moreno.

A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts was conceived as a leading vehicle for actress Sheree North, who was being promoted by 20th Century-Fox as an alternative to the increasingly difficult Marilyn Monroe.

The studio attached popular director Frank Tashlin and comedian Tom Ewell (Monroe's leading man in The Seven Year Itch) to work alongside North, in an effort to ensure the film would be successful.

Zanuck had assigned her the role in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts and that of Tuptim in the film version of The King and I, and was planning to cast her in modernized remakes of The Blue Angel and Under Two Flags.