Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster.
Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war. They were generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and had the specific intent of entertaining both the troops overseas and the civilians back home, as well as to encourage fundraising and to show the studios' patriotism.
Star Spangled Rhythm was directed by George Marshall, produced by Joseph Sistrom and written by Melvin Frank, George S. Kaufman, Arthur Ross, Fred Saidy and Harry Tugend. The music was by Harold Arlen, Robert Emmett Dolan and Johnny Mercer, the cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl and Leo Tover, the art direction by Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté and the costume design by Edith Head.
The cast consisted of most of the stars on the Paramount roster.
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
