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  Review by sakana1 ★★★ 8

  A collaboration between MGM and WAC, Keep Your Power Dry is interesting more for its timing than anything else.

  On June 8, 1943, New York Daily News columnist Jack O'Donnell reported that the military would be furnishing WAC women with "contraceptive and prophylactic equipment," something that was interpreted as meaning either that the Army was prostituting women who had innocently signed on to soldiers against their will, or that they were encouraging the women to have sex outside of marriage. The column was retracted two days later, but it didn't matter — its implications were shocking, and the damaging rumors continued to swirl around WAC well into 1944.

  According to Leisa D. Meyer's Creating GI Jane, these rumors arose in…

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  Review by nina chanel ★★★★★ 2

  LEIGH RAND IS A L E S B I A N
   The gay subtext in this is absolutely unreal 

  let me break this down:

  first she’s in awe of val’s legs as she gets off the train

  next rand blows her first impression with val by accidentally breaking val’s shoe

  val forgives her, but obviously Rand screws up again & looks dejected

  they bicker & whatnot because rand’s perfectionism blows it once again 

  rand WATCHES val in her sleep SEVERAL TIMES MIGHT I ADD & then wakes val up by saying “i want to tell you something. i want to tell it to your face because i don’t do things behind peoples backs. tonight i asked the company commander to transfer me away…

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  Review by Kari ★★★½

  I liked this more than I thought I would. The 3 stars, Lana Turner, Laraine Day and Susan Peters, had wonderful chemistry. Watching a film with Susan Peters in it makes me sad knowing she died at just 31. She was such a lovely performer. This movie was particularly painful to watch when you realize it was released a few months after her accident. All of that potential gone forever.

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  Review by Emily ★★★★

  I like Laraine Day and I like Lana Turner so, I liked this movie a lot!

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  Review by Lindsey ★★★½

  You mean this isn't a supposed to be a classic lesbian enemies-to-lovers tale between Laraine and Lana? Could've fooled me!

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  Review by Brenda Lane ★★★½

  My favorite thing about this movie —apart from spending 93 minutes watching women in uniform —was Laraine Day's character gay panicking over Lana Turner like yes girl SAME.

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  Review by friedgreengibbs ★★★½

  GAY. GAY. THEY'RE ALL SO GAY. this movie is so GAY and I love it.

  But seriously. I am a little surprised that there weren't more movies made about the WACS/WAVES/WASPs/SPARS for recruitment or propaganda purposes. I guess the women's auxiliaries were always gonna be a little controversial, and aside from that, perhaps the studios didn't want to have to put their glamorous actresses in unglamorous military attire (the WAC technical advisor on this film wore them down into giving Lana Turner a more practical hairdo - according to a press release: "she took one look at the fancy coiffures suggested by the makeup department and said Nope,' explained Miss Turner. 'She said it would take all day to fix…

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  Review by victor ★★★★

  every character in this was a lesbian

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  Review by Jessica Pickens ★★★★

  I love this film.
  World War II-era films are my favorite, and I especially love films that focus on women involved in the war.
  I love the trio of actresses. I like that there isn't a major romance that is the focus of this film.
  None of the male actors in the film ar up-to-par to Lana Turner, Susan Peters and Laraine Day, and I kinda love that. If even a Tom Drake was in this film, it would distract from the women-focused story.

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  Review by emily ★★

  first: didn't finish this 
  second: because it's the saddest attempt to make drama out of women being in the war with drama they think women can only fight about including petty shit and hello, a man

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  Review by evildeadrise ★★★★½ 1

  leigh rand is so fucking gay like who wrote this in the wiki "Bill becomes enamored of Val, which results in jealousy from Leigh, who also finds Bill attractive." she was CLEARLY not interested in him and was actually jealous of HIM because she has a big gay crush on val... love the enemies to lovers trope, there was so much tension and poor ann was just in the middle of it all. aside from the gayness, i thought this was a really charming film, i loved all three of them so dearly and would not mind like twenty more sequels following their lives.

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  Review by Moriah ★★★★

  "I understand my feelings toward Val. From the first time I ever saw her, she was everything I wanted to be all my life. A girl in...in high heels and furs. A girl who knew her power as a woman. ...The further she went, the better soldier she became. The better soldier she became, the more envious I got, and the more I wanted to see her fail. I've got to say it out loud to somebody. I just can't be whispering it to myself. Valerie Parks turned out to be a better soldier than Leigh Rand. Funny, isn't it? That's what I was too afraid to say, and that's what I'm going to tell her when I find her."…