Mickey Rooney
James 'Jimmy' Connors
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Strike Up the Band is a 1940 American musical film produced by the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Busby Berkeley and stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, in the second of a series of musicals they co-starred in, after Babes in Arms, all directed by Berkeley.
Strike Up the Band: Directed by Busby Berkeley. With Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman, June Preisser. A high school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl.
- (1.9K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Busby Berkeley
- 1940-09-27
At the dance, the band is a hit, and Jimmy decides to enter Paul Whiteman's school band contest in Chicago. To raise their traveling expenses, the band stages a Gay Nineties melodrama for the Elks Club, but afterward they are still short fifty dollars for the trip.
- Busby Berkeley, William Ryan
- Mickey Rooney
Teenage drummer Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) dreams of winning the contest for school bands hosted by popular band leader Paul Whiteman (himself).
- (30)
- Busby Berkeley
- Musical, Comedy
- Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
Strike Up the Band (1940) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jimmy (Rooney) and his best friend Mary (Garland) unite the music-loving kids in town with the dream to be in Paul Whiteman's band. Because their school doesn't help, they decide to raise the money on their own.
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June Preisser plays Barbara Frances Morgan a worldly new rich girl at school who decides that Jimmy is just the boy for her. He seems helplessly unable to resist her charms and temporarily lets down his Mary his best friend Philip Turner (William Tracy) and the other band members.
