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Movie · 1942

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Released 24 December 1942 More from 1942 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Allan Jones
as Johnny Kovacs aka Johnny O'Rourke
35
Jane Frazee
as Joyce Benton
27
Donald O'Connor
as Frankie Flanagan
17
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
18years between the oldest and youngest billed
35Allan Jones — oldest on the call sheet
17Donald O'Connor — youngest billed
26average age of the credited cast
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