''United States Marine Band'' is a 1942 American short documentary film directed by Jean Negulesco, featuring the United States Marine Band. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the

15th Academy Awards The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson; accepting the award for Best Actress, Gar ...

for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

Cast

* USMC Band director – William F. Santelmann * Commandant of the USMC – General

Thomas Holcomb General (United States), General Thomas Holcomb (August 5, 1879 – May 24, 1965) was a United States Marine Corps officer who served as the seventeenth Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 to 1943. He was the first Marine to achieve the ra ...

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* * 1942 films 1942 short films 1940s short documentary films American short documentary films American black-and-white films Black-and-white documentary films Films directed by Jean Negulesco American musical documentary films Documentary films about the United States Marine Corps 1942 documentary films Warner Bros. short films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language short documentary films {{short-documentary-film-stub