The Americanization of Emily is a 1964 British-American black-and-white romantic black comedy war film written by Paddy Chayefsky, produced by Martin Ransohoff, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas and James Coburn.
The film also features Joyce Grenfell, Keenan Wynn and William Windom.
Chayefsky's screenplay was loosely adapted from the 1959 novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie, who had been a SeaBee officer during the Normandy Invasion.
The film is set in London during World War II in the weeks leading up to D-Day in 1944.[4]
