This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime musical comedy film produced by Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis and directed by Michael Curtiz,[5] adapted from a wartime stage musical with the same name, designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, directed by Ezra Stone.

The movie stars George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale, and features a large ensemble cast including Charles Butterworth, Dolores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges, Rosemary de Camp, Ruth Donnelly, Dorothy Peterson, Frances Langford, Gertrude Niesen, Kate Smith, and Joe Louis.

It is a rousing success, but one night during the show orders are received to leave immediately for France: instead of the finale, the troops march up the aisles through the audience, out the theater's main entrance and into a convoy of waiting trucks.

In the trenches of France, several of the soldiers in the production are killed or wounded by shrapnel from a German artillery barrage.

The show goes on tour throughout the United States and eventually plays Washington, D.C., in front of President Roosevelt.

During a break in the show she brings a minister and persuades Johnny that they should marry now – which they do, in the alley behind the theater, with their fathers acting as witnesses.

The movie features star appearances by Irving Berlin, Kate Smith, Frances Langford and Joe Louis as themselves.

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The revue pieces also include acrobat routines, several comedy pieces, and additional songs in drag (entertainment) ("Ladies of the Chorus" and "Hostesses of the Stage Door Canteen"), a magic skit, a minstrel show sketch (often removed from consumer videos and television broadcasts),[citation needed] and tributes to the Navy and the Air Corps.

Producers Jack Warner and Hal Wallis, director Michael Curtiz and screenwriter Casey Robinson all donated their salaries to the Army Emergency Relief Fund.

[1] Many of the soldiers who had participated in the show held reunions every five years after the end of World War II.

[12] Lux Radio Theatre presented a broadcast of the show on February 22, 1943, featuring 200 soldiers and a chorus of professional singers.