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This Is the Army

This Is the Army

★ 5.7/10•1943•2h 1m•Comedy•Music•War

It's your own army - in the army's own show!

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.

Claude Binyon · Screenplay

Michael Curtiz · Director

Casey Robinson · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime2h 1m
LanguageEN
Release DateAug 14, 1943

Actors

George Murphy

George Murphy

Jerry Jones

Joan Leslie

Joan Leslie

Eileen Dibble

George Tobias

George Tobias

Maxie Twardofsky

Alan Hale

Alan Hale

Sergeant McGee

Charles Butterworth

Charles Butterworth

Eddie Dibble

Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello

Mrs. Davidson

Una Merkel

Una Merkel

Rose Dibble

Stanley Ridges

Stanley Ridges

John Davidson

Rosemary DeCamp

Rosemary DeCamp

Ethel Jones

Ruth Donnelly

Ruth Donnelly

Mrs. O'Brien

Dorothy Peterson

Dorothy Peterson

Mrs. Nelson

Frances Langford

Frances Langford

Herself

Gertrude Niesen

Gertrude Niesen

World War One Vocalist

Kate Smith

Kate Smith

Herself

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Johnny Jones

Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Joe Louis

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