A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm. It starred Spencer Tracy, Esther Williams, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson. A Guy Named Joe was the basis of Steven Spielberg's Always (1989) with Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and Audrey Hepburn. Although not strictly a remake, Spielberg used many of the same plot elements in the modern retelling of the story.