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This Is the Army (1943)
Director(s)	Michael Curtiz
Producer(s)	Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner
Top Genres	Comedy, Musical, Romance, War
Top Topics	World War I, World War II

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George Murphy
(as Jerry Jones)

Joan Leslie
(as Eileen Dibble)

George Tobias
(as Maxie Twardofsky)

This Is the Army Overview:

This Is the Army (1943) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner.

Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)

Award	Recipient	Result
Best Art Direction	Art Direction: John Hughes, Lt. John Koenig; Interior Decoration: George J. Hopkins	Nominated
Best Music - Scoring	Ray Heindorf	Won

This Is the Army (1943)

By Beatrice on Oct 18, 2014 From Flickers in Time

This Is the Army Directed by Michael Curtiz Written by Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon 1943/USA Warner Bros First viewing/Netflix rental Variety show movie musicals were all the rage in 1943. ?This might be the most patriotic of them all, with its chorus of soldiers and tunes by Irving Berlin. Th... Read full article

Memorial Day Musical Monday: This is the Army (1943)

on May 26, 2014 From Comet Over Hollywood

It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: ?This is the Army? ?Musical ... Read full article

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Quotes from

Jerry Jones: Will you marry me tonight?
Ethel: Well, of course.
Jerry Jones: Wonderful. Congratulations, darling, you're a war bride. I've just been drafted.

Facts about

When Irving Berlin was filming his rendition of "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning", one of the stagehands, unaware of who the singer was, supposedly said that if the guy who wrote the song could hear Berlin's singing, he'd roll over in his grave.

This was the first Warner Bros. musical shot in three-strip Technicolor.

This film is the only one to star a U.S. President, a U.S. Senator, a state governor and two Presidents of the Screen Actors Guild. Ronald Reagan was President of the U.S. from 1981-1989, Governor of California from 1967-1975 and President of SAG from 1947-1952 and 1959-1960; George Murphy was Senator from California 1965-1971 and President of SAG 1944-1946. They filmed the movie prior to having been elected to any of the offices mentioned.

Featured Cast: See Full Cast

George Murphy(as Jerry Jones)

Joan Leslie(as Eileen Dibble)

George Tobias(as Maxie Twardofsky)

Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)

This Is the Army (1943)

Memorial Day Musical Monday: This is the Army (1943)

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Featured Cast:

See Full Cast

George Murphy
(as Jerry Jones)

Joan Leslie
(as Eileen Dibble)

George Tobias
(as Maxie Twardofsky)