Never Wave at a WAC

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Never Wave at a WAC ★★½ The Private Wore Skirts 1952

A Washington socialite joins the Women's Army Corps hoping for a commission that never comes. She has to tough it out as an ordinary private. A reasonably fun ancestor of “Private Benjamin,” with a cameo by Gen. Omar Bradley as himself. 87m/B VHS, DVD . Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Arleen Whelan, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, Regis Toomey; Cameos: Omar Bradley; D: Norman Z. McLeod; M: Elmer Bernstein.