I give this a 10 because I love both of these actors, but I hate the story. Why would anyone put Stewart through all of this when Sullavan loves Pidgeon? This is terrible. I recently began looking for Margaret's films and since I love both of these actors, this was the next choice. I've already seen the magnificent Shop Around the Corner. This was unbelievable! Why would anyone write a story where Jimmy Stewart is taken advantage of? I know he loved Sullavan in real life, so I can see that coming through. Maybe I'm rambling, but this film has really affected me. This is the very first review I've ever given so you can imagine what it took to get me here. Anyway, I still LOVE MS and JS. Love live both of them in my heart.

This is a cute romantic gem where a young Texan Private soldier (James Stewart) is receiving his final training prior to shipping to WW1-torn Europe when he is almost run over by a wealthy New York socialite Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan). After kind of "playing either hard to get or annoyed", she realizes that he is going to war and probably won't come back. Her eternal fiancé Sam (Walter Pigeon) is a true gentleman in doing a good deed to give some hope to this poor condemned soldier. Daisy (who is very well educated in real life – Harvard) initially doing a kind act of the heart is slowly seduced by the simplicity and genuineness of this young cowboy's heart.This story touched me deeply and I identified strongly to it. Margaret Sullavan is very articulate and so kind that she accepts to marry this young recruit because to him "she is a dream come true that may keep him alive during the years of hell that he will endure…" Years, Americans were very patriotic and draft/conscription was a fact of life for most young males. As a Veteran of three wars (Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), I paid dearly for my own dreams of saving my country from the "commies" - I was raised in the late fifties. On one day of May 2003, on my 118th mission, my number came up; I woke up minutes later... disabled for life.I witnessed war, I saw destruction, and I experienced fear not to say terror. I shared room with many dismembered service members, some did not make it, some died with me as their only companion. Most of the expectant men that could talk, told me about their loved ones, often a young woman they never had the courage to ask in marriage before leaving... As an officer, I wrote many notes to "loved ones" as I promised my troops. The times may have changed in America, may be too much for our own good but basic human needs do not... we still need the love, the hope, the dream (so nicely expressed by "Daisy" in "The Shopworn Angel") that someone special does care back home.May God Bless America and brings justice to the evils that are eroding our country. Bring our troops back. And for the readers of my comments, please, for the memory of all the men/women that gave their lives for this country, treat our returning troops with respect and love. Thank you.

This is a great Classic film with great actors like James Stewart,(Pvt. William Pettigrew),"The F.B.I. Story",'59,who was very young in this picture and played a love sick soldier going to fight in WW1. Pvt. Pettigrew met Margaret Sullivan,(Daisy Heath),"The Mortal Storm",'40, a show gal who had a kind heart and some what fell in love with him even though she liked Walter Pidgeon(Sam Bailey),"The Bad & the Beautiful",'52, Sam stood by and watched the young couple go dating and enjoying themselves in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y. Amusement Park. Hattie McDaniel (Martha, Daisy's Maid),"Gone With the Wind",'39, who had a brief supporting role, gave a great performance and a few laughs. There was a musical scene during the film where Margaret Sullivan sings and dances to an audience of soldiers and sang,"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag & Smile Smile Smile",which was an old time song sung during WWI. If you like an old Classic Film from 1938, and loved James Stewart when he was very young, this is the film for you!

Even the great Margaret Sullavan can't make sense out of a character who starts out as a bossy, obnoxious, self-centered Broadway star, is humanized by hayseed soldier James Stewart by about the third reel, suddenly becomes a Nobly Suffering Heroine, still leads steady beau (and keeper) Walter Pidgeon on, and tries in every way to have her cake and eat it too. Later Sullavan and Stewart have a contest to see who can have the wettest eyes. It's a Borzage-like romance without the Borzage touch, and with cliches that must have been cliches even by 1938--the chorines trilling "Pack Up Your Troubles" as the World War 1 soldiers depart for France (and Sullavan's incongruous dubbing is unintentionally hilarious), the lovestruck private dreaming of his ladylove while peeling potatoes, the bombs-bursting-in-air war montages with ominous music. Amid such blarney it's a relief to have Pidgeon's unsentimental if slightly inert presence, and Hattie McDaniel as a maid who seems smarter and more commonsensical than anyone else in the movie.