Around the World is a 1943 American musical comedy film produced and directed by Allan Dwan from an original screenplay by Ralph Spence.

The film has a large cast, and stars Kay Kyser and his band, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, Marcy McGuire, Wally Brown, and Alan Carney.

The film is full of one-liners, sight-gags, double-talk, running gags, and the kind of antic humor that made Kyser's band—actually a large, versatile orchestra—famous.

The film opens with this text: “To every battlefront men and women of the United Nations fight—Civilians from all walks of life are contributing their honest efforts to the struggle.

Kyser introduces members of his troupe, including Mischa Auer, Joan Davis and Georgia Carroll, who blows the boys a kiss.

Everyone joins in to begin “Great News is in the Making” as planes flown by Chinese and American pilots fill the sky overhead.

The band moves on to Cairo, where Babbitt performs a comic number “I've Got a Secret Weapon” and Davis and others sing, “They Just Chopped Down the Old Apple Tree”.

(cast list per AFI database)*[4] In April 1943, it was announced that Alan Dwan would be handling both the directing and producing responsibilities for the pictures.

At the same time, Jimmy McHugh and Harald Adamson were selected to write the songs for the film, and Kay Kyser was cast as the lead.

[7] On May 14 it was announced that Barbara Hale, Rosemary LaPlanche, and Gloria Warren would be joining the cast,[8] followed two weeks later by Patti Brilie and Margaret Landry.

[26] Motion Picture Daily gave the film a positive review, saying it served "... up a sparkling concoction overflowing with small music and comedy."

They applauded the musical numbers and site gags, and highlighted the work of Kyser, Auer, Davis, Carney and Brown.