This Is the Army

It's your own army - in the army's own show!

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones 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, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Comedy Music Romance War

George Murphy

(Jerry Jones)

Joan Leslie

(Eileen Dibble)

George Tobias

(Maxie Twardofsky)

Alan Hale

(Sergeant McGee)

Charles Butterworth

(Eddie Dibble)

Dolores Costello

(Mrs. Davidson)

Una Merkel

(Rose Dibble)

Stanley Ridges

(John Davidson)

Rosemary DeCamp

(Ethel Jones)

Ruth Donnelly

(Mrs. O'Brien)

Dorothy Peterson

(Mrs. Nelson)

Frances Langford

(Herself)

Gertrude Niesen

(World War One Vocalist)

Kate Smith

(Herself)

Ronald Reagan

(Johnny Jones)

Joe Louis

(Joe Louis)

Irving Berlin

(Irving Berlin (uncredited))

Dan Dailey

(Soldier (uncredited))

Richard Farnsworth

(Soldier (uncredited))

Gary Merrill

(Backstage MP on Right (uncredited))

Gene Nelson

(Soldier (uncredited))

Hayden Rorke

(Soldier / Stage Manager (uncredited))

James Cross

(Stump)

Alan Dexter

(Soldier (uncredited))

Tom D'Andrea

(Tom D'Andrea)

Herbert Anderson

(Danny Davidson)

John Daheim

(Soldier (uncredited))

Richard Irving

(Mandy In Yellow Dress (uncredited))

Henry Jones

(Mr. Brown / World War One Bugle Audition Observer (uncredited))

Ethelreda Leopold

(Woman in D.C. Audience (uncredited))

Richard Reeves

(Moore's Son's Dance Partner - 'Ladies of Chorus' (uncredited))

Ernest Truex

(Soldier's Father (uncredited))

Julie Oshins

William Roerick

(Mr. Green)