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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. They work together staging big-band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Busby Berkeley
- 1940-09-27
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.
- September 27, 1940
- Arthur Freed
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.
- Morrie Ryskind
- George Gershwin
- Ira Gershwin
Warner DVD's Strike Up the Band is a beautifully transferred and polished restoration of this old favorite. It's one film in the 5-disc Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Collection with Babes in Arms, Babes on Broadway and Girl Crazy, all directed by Busby Berkeley.
- Busby Berkeley, William Ryan
- Mickey Rooney
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(Chorus 1) Let the drums roll out. Let the trumpet call. While the people shout. "Strike up the band" Hear the cymbals ring. Callin' one and all. To the martial swing. Strike up the...
