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This Is the Army [DVD] [1943]
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Program Type:Movie
: Studio:Film Detective
: Region Code:0
: Sound Features:stereo
: Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
: Format:DVD
: Product Name:This Is the Army [DVD] [1943]
: Product Tags:DVD
The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's WW1 ""barracks musical"" Yip Yip Yaphank. In both instances, the cast was largely comprised of genuine servicemen, many of them either recently returned from fighting or on the verge of heading off to war. The Hollywood-imposed storyline concerns Jerry Jones (George Murphy), a member of the original 1918 Yip Yip Yaphank cast. His showbiz career curtailed by a leg injury, Jerry becomes a producer during the postwar era. When the US enters WW2, Jerry gathers together several other cast members from the 1918 Berlin musical to help him stage a new all-serviceman show, titled (what else?) This is the Army. The show-within-a-show framework is able to accommodate a romantic subplot, involving Jerry's son Johnny (Ronald Reagan, later a political comrade-in-arms of George Murphy) and Eileen Dibble (Joan Leslie), the daughter of Yip Yip Yaphank alumnus Eddie Dibble (Charles Butterworth). Some of the best moments in This is the Army are from the Broadway production itself, though the lengthy Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne imitation and incessant ""gay"" jokes may have been too smart for the room in 1943. Guest stars include boxer Joe Louis, Kate Smith (singing ""God Bless America"", naturally) and Irving Berlin himself, who steals the show with his plaintive rendition of ""Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"". All profits for the stage and film version of This is the Army went to the Army Emergency Relief Fund, which also controlled the rights to the film. Long withheld from TV distribution, the film finally hit the small screen when it lapsed into Public Domain in the mid-1970s.~Hal Erickson
Name : George Murphy: Role : Jerry Jones
Name : Joan Leslie: Role : Eileen Dibble
Name : Ronald Reagan: Role : Johnny Jones
Name : George Tobias: Role : Maxie Stoloff
Name : Charles Butterworth: Role : Eddie Dibble
Name : Dolores Costello: Role : Mrs. Davidson
Name : Alan Hale: Role : Sgt. McGee
Name : Stanley Ridges: Role : Maj. Davidson
Name : Julie Oshins: Role : Ollie Twardofsky
Name : Ruth Donnelly: Role : Mrs. O'Brien
Name : Michael Curtiz: Role : Director
Name : Hal B. Wallis: Role : Producer
Name : Jack L. Warner: Role : Producer
Name : Casey Robinson: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Claude Binyon: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Irving Berlin: Role : Play Author
Name : Bert Glennon: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Sol Polito: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Irving Berlin: Role : Songwriter
Name : Leo F. Forbstein: Role : Musical Direction/Supervision
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: Studio:Film Detective
: Region Code:0
: Sound Features:stereo
: Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
: Format:DVD
: Product Name:This Is the Army [DVD] [1943]
: Product Tags:DVD
The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was a reworking of Berlin's WW1 ""barracks musical"" Yip Yip Yaphank. In both instances, the cast was largely comprised of genuine servicemen, many of them either recently returned from fighting or on the verge of heading off to war. The Hollywood-imposed storyline concerns Jerry Jones (George Murphy), a member of the original 1918 Yip Yip Yaphank cast. His showbiz career curtailed by a leg injury, Jerry becomes a producer during the postwar era. When the US enters WW2, Jerry gathers together several other cast members from the 1918 Berlin musical to help him stage a new all-serviceman show, titled (what else?) This is the Army. The show-within-a-show framework is able to accommodate a romantic subplot, involving Jerry's son Johnny (Ronald Reagan, later a political comrade-in-arms of George Murphy) and Eileen Dibble (Joan Leslie), the daughter of Yip Yip Yaphank alumnus Eddie Dibble (Charles Butterworth). Some of the best moments in This is the Army are from the Broadway production itself, though the lengthy Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne imitation and incessant ""gay"" jokes may have been too smart for the room in 1943. Guest stars include boxer Joe Louis, Kate Smith (singing ""God Bless America"", naturally) and Irving Berlin himself, who steals the show with his plaintive rendition of ""Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"". All profits for the stage and film version of This is the Army went to the Army Emergency Relief Fund, which also controlled the rights to the film. Long withheld from TV distribution, the film finally hit the small screen when it lapsed into Public Domain in the mid-1970s.~Hal Erickson
Name : George Murphy: Role : Jerry Jones
Name : Joan Leslie: Role : Eileen Dibble
Name : Ronald Reagan: Role : Johnny Jones
Name : George Tobias: Role : Maxie Stoloff
Name : Charles Butterworth: Role : Eddie Dibble
Name : Dolores Costello: Role : Mrs. Davidson
Name : Alan Hale: Role : Sgt. McGee
Name : Stanley Ridges: Role : Maj. Davidson
Name : Julie Oshins: Role : Ollie Twardofsky
Name : Ruth Donnelly: Role : Mrs. O'Brien
Name : Michael Curtiz: Role : Director
Name : Hal B. Wallis: Role : Producer
Name : Jack L. Warner: Role : Producer
Name : Casey Robinson: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Claude Binyon: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Irving Berlin: Role : Play Author
Name : Bert Glennon: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Sol Polito: Role : Cinematographer
Name : Irving Berlin: Role : Songwriter
Name : Leo F. Forbstein: Role : Musical Direction/Supervision
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