The rest of the cast were pretty much stock. What Universal didn't scrimp on was entertainment the movie is packed with it from beginning to end. Jones, Frazee and Jean all sing several songs. Popular Phil Spitalny appears with his "all girl orchestra". O'Connor and Ryan are their usual zany selves, and of course they perform a couple of their energetic dance routines (with Jean joining them briefly in each), and they even sing. Violinist Evelyn Silverstone (billed as "Evelyn and her Magic Violin"), who later gained fame with Lawrence Welk, performs a couple of virtuoso numbers. ![]() Other song and dance routines are worked in by others. ![]() As was the case in many of these musicals, Universal basically built the story around the entertainment. I haven't seen this movie on TV in recent years, but as is the case for every movie that Gloria Jean appeared in, you can buy a copy from Gloria herself on her website. IMDb policy forbids the listing of URLs, but you can find her website by using a search engine and her full name of "Gloria Jean Schoonover." If you're a fan of the old "B" musicals, you'll want to see this one. 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.
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