When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Release: 1942-12-24
·Runtime: 74m
·★ 4.0
Music
By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Cast
Marla Shelton
as Diana Wellman
Jane Frazee
as Joyce Benton
Gloria Jean
as Marilyn Benton
Peggy Ryan
as Dusty
Richard Davies
as Lt. Tommy Bridges
Allan Jones
as Johnny Kovacs aka Johnny O'Rourke
Donald O'Connor
as Frankie Flanagan
Paul Everton
as Speaker (uncredited)
Grace Hayes
as Orchestra Violinist
Clyde Fillmore
as Hamilton Wellman
