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