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This Is the Army

This Is the Army1943

★5.7121 minComedyMusicWar

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.

Director

Writer

Casey Robinson Claude Binyon

Stars

George Murphy Joan Leslie George Tobias

Cast39

George Murphy
as Jerry Jones
Joan Leslie
as Eileen Dibble
George Tobias
as Maxie Twardofsky
Alan Hale
as Sergeant McGee
Charles Butterworth
as Eddie Dibble
Dolores Costello
as Mrs. Davidson
Una Merkel
as Rose Dibble
Stanley Ridges
as John Davidson
Rosemary DeCamp
as Ethel Jones
Ruth Donnelly
as Mrs. O'Brien
Dorothy Peterson
as Mrs. Nelson
Frances Langford
as Herself
Gertrude Niesen
as World War One Vocalist
Kate Smith
as Herself
Ronald Reagan
as Johnny Jones
Joe Louis
as Joe Louis
Irving Berlin
as Irving Berlin (uncredited)
Dan Dailey
as Soldier (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth
as Soldier (uncredited)
Gary Merrill
as Backstage MP on Right (uncredited)
Gene Nelson
as Soldier (uncredited)
Hayden Rorke
as Soldier / Stage Manager (uncredited)
J
James Cross
as Stump
Alan Dexter
as Soldier (uncredited)
Tom D'Andrea
as Tom D'Andrea
Herbert Anderson
as Danny Davidson
John Daheim
as Soldier (uncredited)
Richard Irving
as Mandy In Yellow Dress (uncredited)
Henry Jones
as Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
as Woman in D.C. Audience (uncredited)
Richard Reeves
as Moore's Son's Dance Partner - 'Ladies of Chorus' (uncredited)
Ernest Truex
as Soldier's Father (uncredited)
J
Julie Oshins
William Roerick
as Mr. Green
Ross Elliott
as Officer in Magician Skit
Alan Manson
as Hunting Skit Straight Man /Jane Cowl
Irving Bacon
as Waiter (uncredited)
Richard Crane
as Sergeant on Field March (uncredited)
Doodles Weaver
as Soldier (uncredited)

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