From 1943 it's The Gang's All Here, a gorgeous Technicolor morale boosting musical with the standard solider falls for a chorus girl and forgets to mention that he's already engaged to the girl in the mansion next door. It's stars Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and appearing as himself, the great Benny Goodman, the King of Swing!
Directed by Busby Berekley, it features the suggestive and risqué "Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" number, "You Discover You're in New York" which lampoons rationing and a positively surreal finale that looks like polka-dots on an acid trip.
James Ellison who plays the solider is a bit of a heel and he ain't no Don Ameche.
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