When Johnny Comes Marching Home

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.

Directed by Charles Lamont

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Cast

Allan Jones

Johnny Kovacs

Jane Frazee

Joyce

Gloria Jean

Marilyn

Donald O'Connor

Frankie

Peggy Ryan

Dusty

Richard Davies

Tommy Bridges

Clyde Fillmore

Hamilton Wellman

Marla Shelton

Diana Wellman

Olin Howland

Trullers

Emma Dunn

Ma Flanagan

Maceo Anderson

Four Step Brothers Member

Freddie James

Four Step Brothers Member

Sylvester Johnson

Four Step Brothers Member

Al Williams

Four Step Brothers Member

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