When Johnny Comes Marching Home

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Allan JonesJohnny Kovacs

Jane FrazeeJoyce

Gloria JeanMarilyn

Donald O'ConnorFrankie

Peggy RyanDusty

Richard DaviesTommy Bridges

Clyde FillmoreHamilton Wellman

Marla SheltonDiana Wellman

Olin HowlandTrullers

Emma DunnMa Flanagan

Maceo Anderson

Maceo AndersonFour Step Brothers Member

Freddie James

Freddie JamesFour Step Brothers Member