Dixie Dugan (1943)

Roger Hudson a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a dollar a year man is late for a radio broadcast about his new department the Mobilization of Woman Power for War He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan who hopes that being a cabbie while the countrys men are away fighting will help the war effort Her incompetent driving however results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time Dixie then returns home where she lives with her father Timothy who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties her mother Gladys an aspiring Red Cross worker and cousin Imogene who studies incessantly to become a quiz kid The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixies fiancé Matt Hogan and to blustering Judge J J Lawson Matt who works in a munitions factory wants Dixie to settle down and marry him but Dixie is determined to help her country