Thousands Cheer

Release Date:

Sep 13, 1943

Running Time:

2:06

Genre:

Musical

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Kathryn Grayson	Kathryn Jones
Gene Kelly	Private Eddie Marsh
Mary Astor	Hyllary Jones
Jose Iturbi	Himself
John Boles	Colonel Bill Jones
Dick Simmons	Captain Fred Avery
Ben Blue	Chuck Polansky
Frank Jenks	Sergeant Koslack
Frank Sully	Alan
Wally Cassell	Jack
Ben Lessy	Silent Monk
Frances Rafferty	Marie Corbino
Odette Myrtil	Mama Corbino
Willy Kaufman	Papa Corbino
Lionel Barrymore
Mickey Rooney	Himself
Red Skelton	Himself
Eleanor Powell	Herself
Ann Sothern	Herself
Lucille Ball	Herself
Virginia O'Brien	Herself
Lena Horne	Herself
Marsha Hunt	Herself
Margaret O'Brien	Customer in Red Skelton Skit

Producers:

Joe Pasternak

Language:

English

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Trapeze artist Eddie Marsh is a new military recruit with an entertainer's spirit. Eddie decides he'd like to organize a grand performance for his fellow soldiers, but is distracted when he meets the lovely Kathyrn . Eddie and Kathyrn have chemistry, but the girl's father, Col. Bill Jones, disapproves of the romance. Undeterred, Eddie does his best to put on the show of a lifetime and earn the blessing of the curmudgeonly colonel.

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