Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
Nancy Reagan | Nurse Lt. Helen Blair | |
Arthur Franz | Lt. Cmdr. Don Landon (XO, USS Starfish) | |
Robert Arthur | Freddy Warren | |
William Leslie | Lt. Paul Prentice | |
William 'Bill' Phillips | Carroll (as William Phillips) | |
Harry Lauter | Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton |
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