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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.
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 is a 1927 musical with a book by Morrie Ryskind, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin. It first ran as a satirical show in Philadelphia that year, unsuccessfully, and on Broadway in 1930 after the original book by George S. Kaufman was revised by Ryskind.
Strike Up the Band is the second of Arthur Freed's big 'teen musicals', with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland playing Louis B. Mayer's ideal kids next door. Both Jimmy Connors and Mary Holden are enormous talents eager to spring up from the grass roots of America.
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"Strike Up the Band" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin with the collaboration of Millie Raush. It was written for the 1927 musical Strike Up the Band, where it formed part of a satire on war and militaristic music.
Strike Up the Band (1940) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
