This Is the Army (1943)

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Genre

comedy film, war film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 01m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a World War II musical comedy that follows a group of soldiers putting on a stage show to support the war effort. It features songs by Irving Berlin and includes many performers who were real soldiers at the time.

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What happens

This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime musical comedy film produced by Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis and directed by Michael Curtiz, adapted from the wartime stage musical of the same name, designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, directed by Ezra Stone. The screenplay by Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon was based on the 1942 Broadway musical written by James McColl and Irving Berlin, with music and lyrics by Berlin. Berlin composed the film's 19 songs, and sang one of them. The movie stars George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale, and features a large ensemble cast including Charles Butterworth, Dolores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges, Rosemary de Camp, Ruth Donnelly, Dorothy Peterson, Frances Langford, Gertrude Niesen, Kate Smith, and Joe Louis. The cast of both the film, and the stage play on which it was based, included soldiers of the U.S. Army who were actors and performers in civilian life, including Reagan and Louis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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