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