When Johnny Comes Marching Home
“FORWARD MARCH! for romance...rhythm...and fun!”
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Languages
English
Cast
Allan Jones
Johnny Kovacs aka Johnny O'Rourke
Jane Frazee
Joyce Benton
Gloria Jean
Marilyn Benton
Donald O'Connor
Frankie Flanagan
Peggy Ryan
Dusty
Paul Everton
Speaker (uncredited)
Grace Hayes
Orchestra Violinist
Richard Davies
Lt. Tommy Bridges
Maceo Anderson
One of the Four Step Brothers tap dancing act.
Clyde Fillmore
Hamilton Wellman
Marla Shelton
Diana Wellman
