This Is the Army (1943)

5.7/10 121 min Comedy Music Romance War

Overview

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Cast

George Murphy

Jerry Jones

Joan Leslie

Eileen Dibble

George Tobias

Maxie Twardofsky

Alan Hale

Sergeant McGee

Charles Butterworth

Eddie Dibble

Dolores Costello

Mrs. Davidson

Una Merkel

Rose Dibble

Stanley Ridges

John Davidson

Rosemary DeCamp

Ethel Jones

Ruth Donnelly

Mrs. O'Brien

Dorothy Peterson

Mrs. Nelson

Frances Langford

Herself

Gertrude Niesen

World War One Vocalist

Kate Smith

Herself

Ronald Reagan

Johnny Jones

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (uncredited)

Dan Dailey

Soldier (uncredited)

Richard Farnsworth

Soldier (uncredited)

Gary Merrill

Backstage MP on Right (uncredited)

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Players
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