When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Music
FORWARD MARCH! for romance...rhythm...and fun!
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.
1942-12-24
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Cast
Director
Charles Lamont
Allan Jones as Johnny Kovacs aka Johnny O'Rourke
Jane Frazee as Joyce Benton
Gloria Jean as Marilyn Benton
Donald O'Connor as Frankie Flanagan
Peggy Ryan as Dusty
Paul Everton as Speaker (uncredited)
Grace Hayes as Orchestra Violinist
Richard Davies as Lt. Tommy Bridges
Clyde Fillmore as Hamilton Wellman
Marla Shelton as Diana Wellman