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When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)

When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)

Music

FORWARD MARCH! for romance...rhythm...and fun!

Release Date: 1942, December 24
Directors: Charles Lamont
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures
Cast: Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Richard Davies, Clyde Fillmore, Allan Jones, Gloria Jean, Grace Hayes, Jane Frazee, Paul Everton, Marla Shelton, Maceo Anderson

Overview:

By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.

Keywords:

musical military