When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942By 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.
Acted in
Allan Jones
as Johnny Kovacs aka Johnny O'Rourke
Jane Frazee
as Joyce Benton
Gloria Jean
as Marilyn Benton
Donald O'Connor
as Frankie Flanagan
Peggy Ryan
as Dusty
Paul Everton
as Speaker (uncredited)
Grace Hayes
as Orchestra Violinist
Richard Davies
as Lt. Tommy Bridges
Maceo Anderson
as One of the Four Step Brothers tap dancing act.
Clyde Fillmore
as Hamilton Wellman
Marla Shelton
as Diana Wellman