In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
| George Murphy | … | Jerry Jones | |
| Joan Leslie | … | Eileen Dibble | |
| George Tobias | … | Maxie Twardofsky | |
| Alan Hale | … | Sgt. McGee | |
| Charles Butterworth | … | Eddie Dibble | |
| Dolores Costello | … | Mrs. Davidson | |
| Una Merkel | … | Rose Dibble | |
| Stanley Ridges | … | Maj. John B. Davidson |