This Is the Army

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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Musical, War
Release Year: 1943
Country: USA
Runtime: 121
Rating: 6.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Michael Curtiz
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Its your own army - in the armys own show!

Writing by: Irving Berlin - (play) uncredited
Casey Robinson - (writer) &
Claude Binyon - (writer) (as Capt. Claude Binyon)

Produced by: Hal B. Wallis - producer
Jack L. Warner - producer

Cast: George Murphy - Jerry Jones
Joan Leslie - Eileen Dibble
George Tobias - Maxie Twardofsky
Alan Hale - Sgt. McGee
Charles Butterworth - Eddie Dibble
Dolores Costello - Mrs. Davidson
Una Merkel - Rose Dibble
Stanley Ridges - Maj. John B. Davidson
Rosemary DeCamp - Ethel
Ruth Donnelly - Mrs. OBrien
Dorothy Peterson - Mrs. Nelson

Music: Ray Heindorf Max Steiner
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Plot Outline: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War...
Plot: 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 fianc?e until the war is over.

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the Credits, the cast members are listed in the following order: first the members, who never served in World War II, than the members of the US Armed Forces, starting with Lt. Ronald Reagan.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: The map showing the German attack on Poland on September 1, 1939 shows the Austrian-Czech border from 1937.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
When Irving Berlin was filming his rendition of "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning", one of the stagehands, unaware of who the singer was, supposedly said that if the guy who wrote the song could hear Berlins singing, hed roll over in his grave.
This film is the only one to star a U.S. President, a U.S. Senator, a state governor and two Presidents of the Screen Actors Guild. Ronald Reagan was President of the U.S. from 1981-1989, Governor of California from 1967-1975 and President of SAG from 1947-1952 and 1959-1960; George Murphy was Senator from California 1965-1971 and President of SAG 1944-1946. They filmed the movie prior to having been elected to any of the offices mentioned.
Dolores Costellos last movie.