This Is the Army(1943)

movie - first aired/released 1943-08-14 - 121 min - audience 5.7

Comedy, Music, War

Directed by Michael Curtiz

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.