Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Directors

Henry Koster

Cast

Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner, Ruth Hussey

The story

In the 1890s, Sergeant Major John Philip Sousa, director of the United States Marine Band, leaves the Marine Corps after his enlistment expires to form his own band. He must do so because he is not paid enough by the Corps to provide for his wife Jennie and their three children. As a favor for his splendid service, he can take along Private Willie Little, who has invented and played a new instrument, the "Sousaphone." Willie persuades Sousa to go to a "concert" where some of Sousa's songs will be performed.

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