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Around the World (1943)

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Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kay Kyser ...
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MIscha Auer
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Joan Davis
Marcy McGuire ...
Marcy McGuire
Wally Brown ...
Wally
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Joe Gimpus
Kay Kyser Band ...
Kay Kyser Band (as Kay Kyser's Band)
M.A. Bogue ...
Ish Kabibble (as Merwyn 'Ish Kabibble' Bogue)
Georgia Carroll ...
Georgia Carroll
Harry Babbitt ...
Sully Mason ...
Sully Mason
Julie Conway ...
Jule Conway (as Jule Conway)
Diane Pendleton ...
Diane Pendleton
Jack ...
Jack (as Jack and Mac)
Mac ...
Mac (as Jack and Mac)
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Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

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THE MUSICAL THAT GOES PLACES... all over the global map on a song-and-laugh tour of our fighting fronts!

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Comedy | Musical

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27 November 1943 (USA)  »

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Ao Redor do Mundo  »

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(RCA Sound System)

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1.37 : 1
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Joan Davis encounters a sulphur-crested cockatoo in the streets of Cairo. Cockatoos are native to Australia and some islands to its north, and are not found in Africa. See more »

Goofs

In the medium and close shots, the Australian and British soldiers are wearing US uniforms, with only different head-wear (slouch hat, berets, etc.) to differentiate them from the US soldiers. See more »

Connections

References Little Red Walking Hood (1937) See more »

Soundtracks

"They Just Chopped Down the Old Apple Tree"
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Music by Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
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wartime fluff and great swing
2 January 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Not a great movie but a delight. So many movies were made to lighten the mood of wartime, many of which we know and many of which were forgotten. This is a joy - the music is terrific, the plot so thin it's transparent. The pretext is that Kyser's band and singers are traveling from one base to another to entertain the troops. (Kyser married the lead singer after this show and she quit her singing career.) The musicians and singers are talented, and Kyser pulls off the kind of broad humor that Bob Hope made famous on USO tours. Joan Davis is a comedic genius - very physical, as extreme as Lucille Ball or Imogene Coca, but pretty enough to hold her own with the feminine stars. Interesting that she chose the clownish route. She's a female Danny Kaye.


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