This Is the Army
This Is the Army

This Is the Army

United States of America

  • 1943-08-14(US)
  • Comedy,
    Music,
    Romance,
    War
  • 2h-1m
56%
User
Score
It's your own army - in the army's own show!

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.

Top Billed 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

Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (uncredited)

Dan Dailey

Soldier (uncredited)

Richard Farnsworth

Soldier (uncredited)

Gary Merrill

Backstage MP on Right (uncredited)

Gene Nelson

Soldier (uncredited)

Hayden Rorke

Soldier / Stage Manager (uncredited)

James Cross

Stump

Alan Dexter

Soldier (uncredited)

Tom D'Andrea

Tom D'Andrea

Herbert Anderson

Danny Davidson

John Daheim

Soldier (uncredited)

Richard Irving

Mandy In Yellow Dress (uncredited)

Henry Jones

Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited)

Ethelreda Leopold

Woman in D.C. Audience (uncredited)

Richard Reeves

Moore's Son's Dance Partner - 'Ladies of Chorus' (uncredited)

Ernest Truex

Soldier's Father (uncredited)

Julie Oshins

William Roerick

Mr. Green

Ross Elliott

Officer in Magician Skit

Alan Manson

Hunting Skit Straight Man /Jane Cowl

Irving Bacon

Waiter (uncredited)

Richard Crane

Sergeant on Field March (uncredited)

Doodles Weaver

Soldier (uncredited)


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A review by CinemaSerf

6.0
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-07-07

With poor old “Johnny” (Ronald Reagan) reluctant to get married to his a childhood sweetheart “Eileen” (Joan Leslie) with his draft looming, he finds himself with another sort of draft altogether. That one sees him, and a cast of hundreds, involved in putting on the ultimate in wartime entertainment that has just about...


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  • Status
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  • Revenue

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  • Content Score

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