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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.
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
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At the dance, the band is a hit, and Jimmy decides to enter Paul Whiteman's school band contest in Chicago. To raise their traveling expenses, the band stages a Gay Nineties melodrama for the Elks Club, but afterward they are still short fifty dollars for the trip.
- Busby Berkeley, William Ryan
- Mickey Rooney
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the...
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Jimmy (Rooney) and his best friend Mary (Garland) unite the music-loving kids in town with the dream to be in Paul Whiteman's band. Because their school doesn't help, they decide to raise the money on their own.
