When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) — music film. Directed by Charles Lamont. Starring Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor. This page maps 9 characters and 8 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A war hero navigates civilian leave, romantic complications, and patriotic misunderstandings before returning to duty.
Music · 7/10 · 74 min · 1942
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.
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