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And because it clicked, MGM did what all the other major studios were doing--hiring their big stars to do cameos in a picture obviously aimed at entertaining the troops overseas. Paramount did it with STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM, Warners with THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS, Universal with FOLLOW THE BOYS, so it was only a matter of time before MGM came up with THOUSANDS CHEER.

If nothing else, it serves as a good showcase for the talents of KATHRYN GRAYSON (their newest singing bird) and GENE KELLY (although his dancing is limited here). For good measure they gave them MARY ASTOR and JOHN BOLES for parents, a story about a girl who wants to get her mom and dad back together again (where have we heard that one before?), and a whole bunch of MGM's brightest stars or character players in a "let's put on a show for the boys" routine.

Too bad the only thing missing is a good script. Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the gorgeous Technicolor, the dreamy close-ups of Kathryn Grayson at her musical best, and guest stars like LUCILLE BALL, JUDY GARLAND, LENA HORNE, FRANK MORGAN, VIRGINIA O'BRIEN, RED SKELTON and MICKEY ROONEY to perk up interest in a sagging script for the second half of the movie.

Summing up: Could have been a lot better. If this is your kind of ticket, check out THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS for a better star-filled time.

Rats! Not only are the numerous actors and actresses good looking they are also talented. Gene Kelly's dance with a broom is as good as anything he ever did on film. But the World War Two message of this movie is that talent and good looks are not enough to win a war, one must also have high moral character. Bad boy Kelly says that he can get himself into trouble and that he can find his way out of trouble--but can he? There are some great Vaudeville lines that keep one amused while Kelly is trying to find out what a good soldier should be. For example, the doctor says he "only did appendix operations on the side" and that he did grafting "only because his salary was so small." The movie is great fun at a time in United States history when there was not much to laugh about. Song and dance does take the edge off war, if only temporarily.

This 1943 Classic film clearly showed how Hollywood supported our Armed Forces during World War II and there are so many talented actors appearing in this film who all gave great performances with their talented gifts.

Always enjoyed the great singing talent of Lena Horne who appeared in many Musicals during the 1940's and one of her famous songs was "Stormy Weather". I use to live in St. Albans, Queens, New York and she was a neighbor. Lena was the pioneer of Black entertainers who started to break into the Hollywood scene and finally it was accomplished.

Naturally, the War was going on and this was a picture that was created to cheer our Fighting Men and it also was a propaganda film to cheer up the American Citizens with a cast of hundreds of famous actors. Enjoyed seeing a very little known actress who is now 91 years of age, Marsha Hunt who was very young and attractive in the film, she was only 26 years of age.

Don't miss this film, it is really a gem of a gem. Enjoy

Thousands Cheer had a lot going for it from the get go, the biggest selling point being the amount of talent involved. While it is not a great film there is still plenty to enjoy and on the most part the cast are well-used.

Thousands Cheers' story is very thin and very contrived with the lead in to the film's second half feeling rather abrupt and the script is even thinner with a lot of hokey dialogue and too many moments where it sags in energy. A vast majority of the cast are great and are well-utilised, but Mary Astor is wasted with not very much to do and Red Skelton is more irritating than funny.

It is on the other hand very well-made with lavish sets and gorgeous photography while the Oscar nomination for the music score was deserved, it's very characterful and lush. The songs are not exactly memorable, apart from Honeysuckle Rose, but they are very pleasant and don't bog the film down at all, they are also very well-choreographed. Of all the show segments the highlights were Gene Kelly's dance with the mop, Eleanor Powell's tap dance, Lena Horne's beautiful rendition of Honeysuckle Rose and Judy Garland's uproarious The Joint Is Really Jumpin' in Carnegie Hall. You do wish that Gene Kelly had more dancing to do but he is dashing and very watchable and Kathryn Grayson is charm personified and sings beautifully.

All in all, not a great film but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. 6/10 Bethany Cox

This is one of those WWII era musicals where a studio assembles all their top talent for an all-star extravaganza. The stars' appearances are incorporated via a very thin plot. The plot doesn't matter, because the real point in watching this film is to see the musical talent.

This film stars Kathryn Grayson who is the daughter of military colonel John Boles and Mary Astor. Grayson is a singer who is performing onstage with Jose Iturbi. Grayson decides to put her musical career on hold in order to entertain the troops on her father's base. One of her father's new recruits is acrobat Gene Kelly, who is drafted into the Army, but would rather be in the Air Force. Kelly and Grayson end up falling in love (of course). Things are complicated when Astor wants to take Grayson back home because she doesn't want Grayson falling in love with a soldier. Astor tells her that being the wife of a soldier is undesirable because the army will always be a priority. There is also another subplot where Grayson tries to get her parents back together. The highlight of the first half, IMHO, is Gene Kelly's "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" dance with a broom.

However, all of that plot is meaningless, because the second half of the film is where all the action is. Mickey Rooney appears as himself. He emcees the show and also provides some impressions along the way. The best performances in the second half are Eleanor Powell, Lena Horne and Judy Garland's. Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern and Marcia Hunt appear in a skit with Frank Morgan, and Donna Reed and Margaret O'Brien appear in a routine with Red Skelton. Virginia O'Brien does another of her awful deadpan routines with Gloria de Haven and June Allyson providing support. Gene Kelly's stunt double performs a trapeze act. Kathryn Grayson come out to sing another song while, almost literally, "thousands cheer" - the soldiers that is.

Thousands Cheer is an average film viewed from today, although it is fun to watch for Kelly, Garland, Powell, and Horne. As little as they gave Kelly to do here, you can tell MGM just didn't know what to do with the fellow yet After all he had only been on the MGM lot for about a year. However, they did give him some great comic bits.

I guess you have to view this one from the wartime perspective of when the world was a canteen and morale boosting on the home front was the order of the day.

Tonight was the first time I'd seen this one. I thought I had seen most of Kathryn Grayson's work.It was enjoyable. Of course there's not much plot as I believe it was made to take the civilian's mind off the tension of WWII.

I'm a big Kathryn Grayson fan (along with Jane Powell and Deanna Durbin), and take umbrage to Dreamer36's reference to her singing as "chirping". While I realize that not everyone likes coloraturas, you have to give credit for the sheer talent alone. After all, where is that kind of talent in the movies they put out today? It gets tiring seeing a flick where's there's an obligatory scene where someone or something get blown to h*** and back and every other word is f***.

Gene Kelly's dancing was fantastic as usual, especially the scene with the broom and it's always a pleasure to see what classical treats José Iturbi has in store.

OK Plot begins to bog down, then gets completely interrupted by a parade of stars, some of them annoying, some great. Highlight of stars is Judy singing, Mickey's impressions and Eleanor Powell seen in color. Highlight of movie is Gene Kelly's only dance number (the famous one with the mop). Really good actress Mary Astor is once again wasted.

Gene Kelly plays the "King of the Trapeze turned buck army private" magnificently, supplemented with the chirping of Kathryn Grayson. It shows how, even in his early years, (This is only the second year of Gene in Hollywood pictures) he was a great dancer/actor. (His dance with the mop was the best part of the movie for me) This great movie is supplemented by the great bands of Jose Iturbi and Bob Crosby, and with the great talents of silver screen greats like Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson, and the spectacular Judy Garland. This movie is a must for all classic musical buffs!!!

When I saw the cast, I really got my hopes up. But they were dashed and then some. I kept waiting for Gene Kelly to cut the rug, but he danced one measly scene. I like Katherine Grayson, but seriously, the material she had was nothing special. In fact, most of the songs were awful. The exception was Lena Horne's Honeysuckle Rose, but sitting through the rest of the movie was a high price to pay for one quality number. There were such great tunes written during wartime. Where were they? Compare with Irving Berlin's This is the Army. It doesn't. It was nice to see a young Gene Kelly show us he can act, as well as dance. If you like vintage musicals, there are much better ones.

Although the production values for "Thousands Cheer" were very, very nice (since it was made by MGM), I thoroughly hated practically every minute of this dreadfully dull film. The plot was thin, the main character VERY unlikable and the variety show was, for the most part, dreadful. In so many ways, you can find better films than this one.

"Thousands Cheer" is a WWII propaganda film that is part story and part a variety show featuring MGM acts. The star is a very young Gene Kelly. He has just been inducted in the military and spends most of his time complaining and just being unpleasant. For some bizarre reason, the Colonel's daughter (Kathryn Grayson) has fallen for him. But, because he is almost always in trouble and is so troublesome, the relationship seems doomed.

In addition to this plot that I could not care less about (mostly because Kelly's character was just unlikable and argumentative), the film had a VERY long sequence that was a variety show of MGM stars supposedly performing for our troops. Mickey Rooney was the emcee and it featured some mostly bland performances by the likes of Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell. These sequences made me a bit mad because similar stuff was done so much better in Warner's "Stage Door Canteen" and "Hollywood Canteen". These similar variety shows intended to entertain and bolster our troops were just much more fun.

So it obviously sounds like I didn't like this film--and that is indeed true. The problem is that there were many, many wartime armed services films that were better and there were variety shows that were better. Despite "Thousands Cheer" being in color, it just didn't deliver and was a terrible role for Gene Kelly.

When You watch Thousands Cheer please note the plot similarities between it and the two John Ford cavalry classics Fort Apache and Rio Grande. Kathryn Grayson is an army brat whose army father John Boles and show business mother Mary Astor separated years ago as in Rio Grande. Kathryn like Shirley Temple has fallen for a man of the ranks, a recent draftee. Fortunately John Boles is a bit more understanding than Henry Fonda was.

But folks, you don't watch films like Thousands Cheer for the story, thin as it is. You watch to see a whole lot of fabulous acts and a kind of film that can never be done again because we don't have all that talent under one studio roof. Gene Kelly the object of Grayson's affections was fairly new to films and is only give one dance number, an impromptu affair with a broom. With Eleanor Powell in the same film it would have been nice had they partnered in a number. But back then MGM wasn't thinking of posterity.

Just like in Paramount's Star Spangled Rhythm, the hook is a show that is being put on at the camp John Boles is in charge of. Mickey Rooney serves as one lively master of ceremonies and does some wicked impersonations of fellow MGM players Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable.

My favorite though is Lena Horne singing Honeysuckle Rose. Best thing about a very entertaining film.

Not a great movie, but it has a few high spots. The first half is a mediocre patriotic musical. The second half is a cobbled-together "variety show" performed for an army camp. Grayson sings sweetly, if you like that sort of thing (opera style + show tunes). As for Jose Iturbe's jazz piano, the less said the better. But Lena Horne sings "Honeysuckle Rose" beautifully, Judy Garland does her number well, and Eleanor Powell does a fun boogie-woogie routine. In the first half, there's a rarely seen Gene Kelly dance that's pretty good. The rest is modestly diverting, and MC Mickey Rooney's impression of Lionel Barrymore (in the variety show) is pretty funny.

Army private Gene Kelly, who's also a talented trapeze aerialist, comes under fire for doing daring stunts without a net and alienating his high-wire cohorts; meanwhile, there's an elaborate 'camp show' to put on for Army soldiers and personnel, and the whole studio of M-G-M has shown up to join in the fun. Mickey Rooney plays M.C. (unctuously), introducing acts like Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, Bob Crosby, Benny Carter, and the M-G-M Dancing Girls (who appear to be dressed as vegetables). Red Skelton does a cute bit with Donna Reed and Margaret O'Brien, but the other comedic bits suffer from an apparent vacuum between the performers and the allegedly-live audience (they're awfully silent until the editor cuts to them for exaggerated reaction shots). Judy Garland sings an inappropriate song about a jumpin' night at Carnegie Hall (improbably accompanied by classical pianist José Iturbi, whom Judy calls 'hep'). The production is glossy, but the manic energy feels false, fabricated. ** from ****

Everybody is kissing goodbyes at the train station. With no one to kiss, Pvt. Eddie Marsh (Gene Kelly) grabs Kathryn Jones (Kathryn Grayson) and lands a big kiss. He is surprised when she boards the train with the soldiers. She's actually the daughter of his commanding colonel.

That's the plot and Gene Kelly gives it an air of fun. The lead character doesn't want to be in the Army but he learns to love it anyways. He manages to keep the first half moving. In actuality, this is a movie to cheer up the wartime audience with a lot stars making cameos. The second half is more an USO performance hosted by Mickey Rooney. That's what the people want during this dark time in world history. It delivers what they need.

About 20 big-name stars provide cameos in this mostly-dopey love story. I say "mostly" but to be more accurate, about half of the film - but that's an entire hour, and it makes this movie drag. I got this tape for the music and the famous people in it, not to watch that awful first hour of stupid comments. The most annoying were those about marriage made by Mary Astor's character, "Hyllary Jones." (Beware of anyone with that first name, no matter how they spell it!)

The final hour is what this movie is advertised to be - namely the variety show. However, it should have comprised more than just 50 percent of the film. The show, emceed by Mickey Rooney, is how this movie was promoted. Unfortunately, once we finally do get to the big show, you can tell it really wasn't even part of the filming. They were performances done elsewhere and filmed, and then inserted into the movie! How hokey is that? In other words, Rooney and the singers, dancers and comedians are not on one stage playing to a bunch of G.I.'s enjoying the show. This is like when they used stock footage of animals and then inserted them onto a screen into the Tarzan films of the 1930s. It's laughable. This "variety show" is a sham, like the whole movie!

Not only that, but most of the numbers they filmed were poor and the comedy skits were lame. This is a just put together in a very amateurish way. The only act that was halfway decent was the tap dance by Eleanor Powell, but that was just routine number even for her.

This movie, obviously, is not recommended. It deserves "boos" not "cheers."

Besides its silly title, "Thousands Cheer" has some major problems that make it a mediocre film at best.

Released during WWII, it was designed to uplift morale at home (for civilians) and overseas (for the military). The film starts rather well, with the prodigious talents and adorability of Kathryn Grayson on display. It has a lighthearted air and is filled with colorful (Technicolor) scenes, plenty of quality music, and sharp fashions.

But as the story unfolds, it proves to be thin and little more than an excuse to display the talents of various studio stars. In one scene, Ms. Grayson is listening to Jose Iturbi play the piano over the phone. What a way to put a piano solo into the story! Before she hangs up the phone, Iturbi says he is coming to the base to put on a show for the troops there. And in the wink of an eye, the entire storyline is hijacked for a concert of performances by orchestras, dancers, comedians, a trapeze act, etc. The romantic plot is addressed briefly at the end--with a totally ridiculous denouement that involves two couples. And then the film wraps with a rousing anthem designed to invoke a plethora of stirring motivations within the viewer.

As a story, the film is almost a flop. It is better to appraise its value as a concert show. On that basis, the film does sometimes succeed. As I mentioned, Kathryn Grayson's singing is one of the highlights. As star after star steps onstage, there are other good moments, like the song "In a Little Spanish Town", with vocals by Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson and Virginia O'Brien. Personally, I would have enjoyed some strong swing dancing.

The song "I Dug a Ditch" is fun when performed by a comic lead singer, and it is even more fun when operatic Grayson croons its silly lyrics, but when it is performed for a third time later in the show, it feels like the song is driven into the ground.

Gene Kelly stars as a circus aerialist who reluctantly becomes a G.I., then falls in love with the colonel's daughter, played by Kathryn Grayson, who decides to put on a mammoth show for the servicemen. This, of course, gives MGM studios an opportunity to parade out a plethora of stars to perform in the show, among them Eleanor Powell dancing to "Boogie Woogie," Lena Horne singing "Honeysuckle Rose," and Judy Garland doing "The Joint Is Really Jumpin' in Carnegie Hall." Kelly shows off his dancing skills in a duet with a mop to "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," and Grayson raises her voice rather impressively with Verdi's "Sempre Libera," Jose Iturbi conducting. This movie gives you a sentimental sense of what the World War II years were like. The surprisingly likeable "I Dug a Ditch in Wichita" serves as an underlying theme song and is performed several times in the film with different arrangements. Grayson sings a version using an exaggerated "cowboy" accent, and Kelly dances to an instrumental version while partnering with a broom, having jilted the mop. The plot of this wartime film is strong and serves as more than a thread to hold the numbers together, but the comedy stylings of Mickey Rooney, Red Skelton, and Ben Blue inspire fast-forward. ---Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013

Well, I'm stumped as to why this film isn't better known. I'd barely heard of it. Kathryn Grayson is at her most adorable in this one. She sings like an angel, she looks like an angel, she wrinkles her nose like an angel. Gene Kelly is charming, but underused.

The last hour of the film is a star-studded camp show for the boys, and I'm certain that the film was sent overseas to entertain the troops during the war. The finale is somewhat bizarre and stilted -- Grayson singing with what looks to be 400 middle-aged men from different countries -- and provokes a sort of desperate hope that the world will one day again be at peace.

'Thousands Cheer' is an odd hybrid of musical-comedy, review and morality play, but I decidedly enjoyed and appreciated it. See if it doesn't make you misty.

Predictable World War 11 yarn where Gene Kelly falls for Katherine Grayson. He is not too thrilled with the army and her father is his commander.

The movie is greatly patriotic which of course was needed during the war years.

Grayson's mom is played by Mary Astor who left her father years before because of his devotion to duty. Naturally, Grayson would like to see them reconcile.

The second part of the film deals with a cavalcade of MGM stars putting on a show for the troops. The singing is good but the sketches with Frank Morgan, Ann Sothern, Donna Reed, and Marsha Hunt are ridiculous.

Of course, the film resolves itself with Kelly going off to war and Grayson singing as beautifully as ever.

Thousands Cheer (1943) starring Gene Kelly was made using the very best of MGM's actor and movie technician talent in color, and is well done in those areas. I never saw Kelly do such a good job acting, and the same is true for his co-star, Katherine Grayson. Other major actors part of the movie all do well, including Mary Astor, Mickey Rooney, and Judy Garland. It's a spectacular movie technically, and quite a showcase for good actor movie star work done well and skillfully, a credit to all who appear in front of the camera and worked on the machines behind the screen. But there is no script worth the name, and not a single good song appears in this movie, which is supposed to be (and is) a "musical." Judy Garland does her best at the end of the movie with a mediocre song, even though she's always worth seeing. One of the true saints of world cinema history. The movie is an embarrassment of riches except for the bad (non-existent) script and the lack of a single good, memorable song. And this from the then biggest and richest movie studio in the world, MGM. It's an oddity worth seeing for its display of talent, unconnected as that turns out to be with good writing and good song composition. The color especially is dazzling. It's an upbeat "crowd-pleaser" movie needed and delivered during the World War II years. But the lack of good writing and good songs makes it mediocre.

"Thousands Cheer" was made in 1943 when the second world war was at its peak. Battles came one after the other, people died in millions and MGM executives decided to make a movie to cheer everyone up. And they were succesful in it. But they forgot one simple detail: that a movie should not only be entertaining but also meaningful. Kathryn Grayson is a fine operatic singer but she is merely a decent actress (her next movie, Anchors Aweigh, would show all her talents in full) and you can see that she tries so hard to be as good as Gene Kelly but she falls way behind him. Whereas Gene is as charming and remarkable as ever; although I am disappointed he hasn't been given enough time to shine - he performs only one dance number and for a movie having him as a main character it is just a crime - he still manages to fire up this dance with his partner, a mop, to a new level of entertainment. In every movie Gene always tries something different and I adore his genius for it. But the most disappointing part of the movie are the guest stars. Over 30 MGM actors and musicians were invited to do their routines and it takes almost 40 minutes of runtime. It slows down the plot considerably and is simply dull and unnecessary. Could have cut it and the movie would become a masterpiece. But sadly it didn't happen.