![]() He must do so because he is not paid enough by the Corps to provide for his wife Jennie ( Ruth Hussey) and their three children. In the 1890s, Sergeant Major John Philip Sousa, the director of the United States Marine Band, leaves the Marine Corps after his enlistment expires to form his own band. In reality, having learned of the sudden death of his band's manager, Sousa and his wife canceled their European vacation and were returning to the U.S. The inspiration for the film's title march is depicted in a scene with a voice over by Webb quoting Sousa's actual description of its creation while he was aboard ship recovering from typhoid fever. Two examples: In the film, Private Willie Little ( Robert Wagner), is credited with inventing the Sousaphone and naming it after his mentor, but in reality James Welsh Pepper designed the instrument at Sousa's request. While the film's storyline is loosely based on Sousa's autobiography Marching Along, the film takes considerable liberties and dramatic license, often expanding and examining themes and passages from Sousa's book. The film was released twenty years after Sousa's death. The film's title is taken from Sousa's " The Stars and Stripes Forever", which has become the best known of his military marches. This 20th Century Fox feature was produced by Lamar Trotti, directed by Henry Koster, and stars Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner, and Ruth Hussey. Stars and Stripes Forever is a 1952 American Technicolor film biography of the late-19th-/early-20th-century composer and band leader John Philip Sousa.
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