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14 August 1943 (USA) moreTagline:
It's your own army - in the army's own show!Plot:
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War... more | add synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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DVD Review: For Veterans Day, ‘The 95th’ Honors World War II Soldiers (From HollywoodChicago.com. 9 November 2009, 3:57 PM, PST)
Warner Bros. And The Homefront Collection
(From The AV Club. 25 November 2008, 9:01 PM, PST)
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Yes, there is a Yaphank more (23 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Murphy | ... | Jerry Jones |
 | Joan Leslie | ... | Eileen Dibble |
| George Tobias | ... | Maxie Twardofsky |
| Alan Hale | ... | Sgt. McGee |
| Charles Butterworth | ... | Eddie Dibble |
| Dolores Costello | ... | Mrs. Davidson |
| Una Merkel | ... | Rose Dibble |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Maj. John B. Davidson |
| Rosemary DeCamp | ... | Ethel Jones |
| Ruth Donnelly | ... | Mrs. O'Brien |
| Dorothy Peterson | ... | Mrs. Nelson |
| Frances Langford | ... | Herself |
| Gertrude Niesen | ... | World War One Vocalist |
| Kate Smith | ... | Herself |
 | Ronald Reagan | ... | Johnny Jones (as Lt. Ronald Reagan) |
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121 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Certification:
UK:PG (DVD rating) (2005) | UK:U (original rating) | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:BtlFun Stuff
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the "God Bess America" sequence, Kate Smith barrels up to the microphone and her dubbed-in voice is heard to say "It is my happy privilege to introduce a new song: 'God Bless America'" If you read her lips, however, she actually says the words "new tune." moreQuotes:
Jerry Jones: Will you marry me tonight?Ethel: Well, of course.
Jerry Jones: Wonderful. Congratulations, darling, you're a war bride. I've just been drafted.
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As a twenty-year resident of Yaphank, New York, which is on Long Island about 60 miles east of Manhattan, I've learned some of the background of this movie.
Irving Berlin wrote "Yip, Yip, Yaphank" while stationed at Camp Upton in Yaphank during WW I. (Camp Upton is now the Brookhaven National Laboratory.) For this show, which was indeed written to be performed by the soldiers, Berlin wrote "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" and the melody of "God Bless America," which was actually cut from the show in its original form.
The show even ran briefly on Broadway in 1918 with a Camp Upton cast, according to the Internet Broadway Data Base.
After the war ended, the songs were put away, then brought out for the morale-boosting efforts of WW II. Berlin frequently rewrote and reused his songs; he revised the lyrics of "God Bless America" for Kate Smith and the rest, as they say, is history.