This Is the Army

US (1943): Musical/War/Dance

In WW I, dancer Jerry Jones (Geroge Murphy) 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 (Ronald Reagan), who was his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called "This Is the Army". But he has problems because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Michael Curtiz directs this Warner Bros. release that also features Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Rosemary DeCamp, Frances Langford, Irving Berlin singing "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," and Kate Smith introducing a new Irving Berlin song that he called "God Bless America." (IMDb)

 View a clip of Irving Berlin singing "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" in this film on YouTube.com.

3 nominations, 1 Award