The Iron Petticoat

Russian pilot Vinka (Katharine Hepburn), having defected only because she's angry at men in general, warming to her American minder Chuck (Bob Hope) at a West German officers' club, while he plots to get sent to London to pursue his well-fixed fiancee`, in The Iron Petticoat, 1956.

Now in a London hotel, American pilot Chuck (Bob Hope) receives his upper-class Brit fiancee` and her cousin (Noelle Middleton, Nicholas Phipps), who suspect he's hot for the Russian pilot defector Vinka (Katharine Hepburn) he's been assigned to look after, in The Iron Petticoat, 1956.

Enter Katharine Hepburn as Capt. Kovolenko, the Russian pilot who's flown her MiG to a West German air base, debriefed by Tarbell (Alan Gifford) and meeting American pilot Chuck (Bob Hope), early in The Iron Petticoat, 1956, from Ben Hecht's original story and screenplay.

American Bob Hope shows Russian Katharine Hepburn the bright side of capitalism in The Iron Petticoat (1956)