When Johnny Comes Marching Home

The read

It runs a compact 1h 14m.

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Charles LamontDirector
• Oscar BrodneyWriter
• Dorothy BennettWriter

Cast

• Allan JonesJohnny Kovacs
• Jane FrazeeJoyce
• Gloria JeanMarilyn
• Donald O'ConnorFrankie
• Peggy RyanDusty
• Richard DaviesTommy Bridges
• Clyde FillmoreHamilton Wellman
• Marla SheltonDiana Wellman
• Olin HowlandTrullers
• Emma DunnMa Flanagan
• Maceo AndersonFour Step Brothers Member
• Freddie JamesFour Step Brothers Member

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