Strike Up the Band is a 1940 American musical movie directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy, Margaret Early, Ann Shoemaker, Francis Pierlot, Virginia Brissac, George Lessey. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and won an Academy Award in 1941 and was nominated for 3 others.