Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

Directed by

Ralph Murphy, Paul Weatherwax, George Marshall, Lewis Allen

Genre

comedy film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a morale booster film features many Paramount stars in musical numbers and comedy sketches. It aims to entertain troops and civilians while supporting the war effort.

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What happens

Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 American all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, with the intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back home and to encourage fundraising – as well as to show the studios' patriotism. This film was also the first released by Paramount to be shown for 8 weeks. Star Spangled Rhythm was directed by George Marshall and others, and written by Harry Tugend with sketches by Melvin Frank, George S. Kaufman and others. The film has music by Robert Emmett Dolan and songs by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, and the cast consisted of most of the stars on the Paramount roster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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