This Is the Army

Produced by Warner Bros. and distributed Aug. 14, 1943, Technicolor 35mm negative, 1.37:1 screen aspect ratio, mono sound, 121 mins., DVD released 2001.

Crowds gather for the Washington, D.C., premiere of the film This Is the Army at Warner's Earle Theater in Washington, D.C., on August 12, 1943. (NARA, 111-SC-178981) from Prologue

Members of the This Is the Army unit rehearse "That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear." The cast was the only integrated World War II company in the armed forces. (NARA, 111-SC-140528) from Prologue

Berlin sings "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, Italy, where the company played for the first half of April 1944. (NARA, 111-SC-337200) from Prologue

Production:

• Directed by Michael Curtiz
• Written by Casey Robinson, Claude Binyon, from the play by Irving Berlin
• Produced by Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner
• Original Music by Irving Berlin
• Cinematography by Bert Glennon, Sol Polito
• Film Editing by George Amy
• Art Direction by John Hughes, John Koenig
• Set Decoration by George James Hopkins
• Costume Design by Orry-Kelly
• Sound by C.A. Riggs
• Technical advisor Lt. Col. Frank T. McCabe

Cast:

• George Murphy as Jerry Jones
• Ronald Reagan as Johnny Jones
• Joan Leslie as Eileen Dibble
• George Tobias as Maxie Stoloff
• Alan Hale as Sergeant McGee
• Charles Butterworth as Eddie Dibble
• Dolores Costello as Mrs. Davidson
• Una Merkel as Rose Dibble
• Stanley Ridges as Father of soldier
• Rosemary DeCamp as Ethel
• Ruth Donnelly as Mrs. O'Brien
• Dorothy Peterson as Mrs. Nelson
• Frances Langford as Frances Langford
• Gertrude Niesen as Singer at WWI recruit station
• Kate Smith as herself
• Sgt. Joe Louis as soldier
• Sgt. Alan Anderson as soldier
• Sgt. Ezra Stone as soldier
• Sgt. Tom D'Andrea as soldier
• Sgt. James Burrell as soldier
• Sgt. Ross Elliott as soldier
• Sgt. Alan Manson as soldier
• Sgt. John Prinze Mendes as soldier
• Sgt. Julie Oshins as soldier
• Sgt. Earl Oxford as soldier
• Sgt. Robert Shanley as Ted Nelson
• Sgt. Philip Truex as soldier
• Cpl. James MacColl as soldier
• Cpl. Herbert Anderson as Danny Davidson
• Cpl. Ralph Magelssen as soldier
• Cpl. Tilestone Perry as soldier
• Pfc. John Cook Jr. as soldier
• Pfc. Larry Weeks as soldier

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title This Is the Army
• Irving Berlin This Is the Army by Laurence Bergreen in Prologue, Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2
• New Approaches in World War II Timeline
• God Bless America song by Kate Smith - reserve

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