Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Also issued by Island View Entertainment (2003, 105 min.) Ronald Reagan, Kate Smith, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Charles Butterworth, Delores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges, Rosemary De Camp, Ruth Donnelly, Dorothy Peterson, Frances Langford, Gertrude Niesen, Joe Louis.
Summary:
An Irving Berlin musical tribute intended to boost morale during World War II. It honors the patriotic efforts of American soldiers during World Wars I and II. Berlin appears as himself, as does singer Kate Smith who sings God bless America, for which she received the Congressional Gold Medal. Ronald Reagan stars as Johnny Jones, a son who follows in his father's show business footsteps. During World War I his father staged an all-soldier show on Broadway called Yip yip Yaphank. In World War II his son Johnny Jones, who was his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a new show, called This is the army.
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