D-Day Film Festival Week.. The Americanization of Emily (1964) An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission for D-Day... The author of the novel, "The Americanization of Emily", William Bradford Huie, states in the foreword to the novel that: "The Americanization of Emily, like The Revolt of Mamie Stover, is from the war memoirs of Lieutenant Commander James Monroe Madison, USNR. All characters are f