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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

  • 19421942
  • 1h 14m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Jane Frazee, Gloria Jean, Allan Jones, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Phil Spitalny and His All-Girl Orchestra in When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942)
ComedyMusical
War hero Johnny Kovacs works with his superiors to hide from a star crossed lover while on leave and falls in love while living at a boarding house.War hero Johnny Kovacs works with his superiors to hide from a star crossed lover while on leave and falls in love while living at a boarding house.War hero Johnny Kovacs works with his superiors to hide from a star crossed lover while on leave and falls in love while living at a boarding house.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
65
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
241,069
17,710
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    • Director
      • Charles Lamont
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Bennett
      • Oscar Brodney
    • Stars
      • Allan Jones
      • Jane Frazee
      • Gloria Jean
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    • Director
      • Charles Lamont
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Bennett
      • Oscar Brodney
    • Stars
      • Allan Jones
      • Jane Frazee
      • Gloria Jean
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    Allan Jones
    Allan Jones
    • Johnny Kovacs - aka Johnny O'Rourke
    Jane Frazee
    Jane Frazee
    • Joyce Benton
    Gloria Jean
    Gloria Jean
    • Marilyn Benton
    Donald O'Connor
    Donald O'Connor
    • Frankie Flanagan
    Peggy Ryan
    Peggy Ryan
    • Dusty
    Richard Davies
    Richard Davies
    • Lt. Tommy Bridges
    Clyde Fillmore
    Clyde Fillmore
    • Hamilton Wellman
    Marla Shelton
    Marla Shelton
    • Diana Wellman
    Olin Howland
    Olin Howland
    • Trullers
    • (as Olin Howlin)
    Emma Dunn
    Emma Dunn
    • Ma (Norah) Flanagan
    Maceo Anderson
    • One of the Four Step Brothers
    • (as Four Step Brothers)
    Freddy James
    • One of the Four Step Brothers
    • (as Four Step Brothers)
    Sylvester Johnson
    • One of the Four Step Brothers
    • (as Four Step Brothers)
    Al Williams
    • One of the Four Step Brothers
    • (as Four Step Brothers)
    Phil Spitalny
    • Phil Spitalny
    • (as Phil Spitalny and His All-Girl Orchestra)
    Phil Spitalny and His All-Girl Orchestra
    • Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra
    Evelyn Kaye Klein
    Evelyn Kaye Klein
    • Evelyn Kaye
    • (as Evelyn and Her Magic Violin)
    Maria Parisella
    • Orchestra Violinist
    • Director
      • Charles Lamont
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Bennett
      • Oscar Brodney
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    • Connections
      Edited into All This and World War II (1976)
    • Soundtracks
      My Little Dream Girl
      Written by Anatol Friedland (as A. Friedland) and L. Wolfe Gilbert

      Sung by Allan Jones

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    6/10
    It's When He Gets Home The Trouble Starts
    When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again finds Allan Jones as a hero soldier on home with some well earned leave, not only from combat, but from a bond tour where shapely débutante Marla Shelton has been sticking to him like glue. He's a fighting man under his real name, Johnny Kovacs, but everybody knows him under the name of Johnny O'Toole when he was in his civilian occupation, singer with Phil Spitalny's band.

    Coming home he finds that Phil Spitalny's whole orchestra is now women including new singer Jane Frazee. She's got a sister played by Gloria Jean who has a trio act going with Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan. O'Connor's mother Emma Dunn is Jones's former landlady and it's her place he considers home.

    They don't know him as Johnny Kovacs the hero, they only know him as band singer Johnny O'Rourke who enlisted in the army. And somewhere along the line they all get the idea he's gone AWOL. It makes for bulk of the plot in this fast paced musical of the World War II years.

    For those who aren't familiar Phil Spitalny's Orchestra in real life was an all female ensemble, very popular in the Thirties and Forties. Of course with women filling jobs in a lot of traditionally male roles, the gender of the orchestra's musicians was used for a nice gag.

    Composers Gene DePaul and Don Raye wrote the bulk of the score as they did for a lot of musical products at Universal. But Allan Jones had the good sense to have the Howard Deitz-Arthur Schwartz classic You And The Night And The Music interpolated in the film. His singing it with Jane Frazee and Gloria Jean is the musical highlight of the film.

    When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a pleasant, but dated wartime musical film. O'Connor and Ryan were teamed in several films in this era by Universal and are entertaining. And the Four Step Brothers do a nifty dance drill version of The American Patrol.

    If you like films of this era or you love Allan Jones's voice as I do, you'll like When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
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    • Release date
      • December 24, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • En charmör försvinner
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 14 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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