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Director:
Michael Curtiz
Writers:
Casey Robinson (writer) &
Claude Binyon (writer)
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Release Date:
14 August 1943 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | War more
Tagline:
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 synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Yes, there is a Yaphank more (23 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
121 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
UK:PG (DVD rating) (2005) | UK:U (original rating) | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

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Hayden Rorke's first movie. more
Goofs:
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." more
Quotes:
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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Odd Couple: That Is the Army Mrs. Madison (#4.7)" (1973) more
Soundtrack:
Hail to the Chief more

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Yes, there is a Yaphank, 2 July 2006
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Author: goodmam from Yaphank, New York, United States

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.

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