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Strike Up the Band (1940) | User Rating
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Budget $838,661
Running Time
2 hours, 0 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM
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• Strike Up the Band
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, School / Campus
Tagline: The merriest pair on the screen in a great new musical show!
Plot: When eighteen-year old Judy Garland sings "Come On, Kids, Let's Put on a Show," you know its business-as-usual for her and boy-wonder Mickey Rooney. Mickey's taught his high school marching band to swing, daddy, swing, and when he hears that the "King of Jazz" himself, Paul Whiteman, is hosting a contest out in Chicago, Mickey just knows his band can win if they could only raise enough money to get there. Guess how they raise it? That's right, they put on a show. But just when everything looks peachy, an unforeseen catastrophe forces the kids to weigh their hunger for fame against their loyalties to each other.This was the second of the Mickey & Judy musicals that Busby Berkeley directed for MGM, and it's a typically fun entry, notable for the swinging big band numbers. Songs include "Our Love Affair," "Drummer Boy" and "Nobody." The big show-stopper is Mickey and Judy tearing up the floor as they "Do the La Conga."
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Busby Berkeley
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, For Me and My Gal, Babes in Arms |
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| Cast |
Judy Garland
The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Judgment at Nuremberg |
 | Mickey Rooney
Breakfast at Tiffany's, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Babe: Pig in the City | | | William Tracy
The Shop Around the Corner, Angels with Dirty Faces, Mr. & Mrs. Smith | | | |
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