Hollywood & the Stars: Hollywood Goes to War

In this episode from the 1960's US TV series, "Hollywood & the Stars", we see how the film industry responded to WW1 & WW2

[@alecwilliams7111]

I'm so glad that these have survived and are being shown again. I remembering watching these as a teenager, and it was good film history. Joseph Cotten was a marvelous actor and narrator.

[@jennifursun3303]

my fav song in the world Over The Rainbow. RIP Judy and thanks daddy for singing this to me when I was little

[@fromthesidelines]

That was Judy performing it during a "COMMAND PERFORMANCE" broadcast in November 1943.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Seasoned performers said service audiences were a pushover. At home they were bored, at the fronts they yearned for escape. And it was all free. They laughed and applauded easily. Strange that Sessue Hayakawa was entertaining doughboys, but in the earlier world war Japan and the US were pals.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

They forgot Jimmy Stewart, who rose to bird colonel in the Army Air Corps during the war. After the war, he stayed in the USAF reserves, where he made brigadier general.

[@curtismoon5316]

He was a great American.

[@tomservo56954]

It said he enlisted even before Pearl Harbor...

[@dudley5533]

Well done, so many stars gave their time and use their talents to bring enjoyment to the overseas and at home troops, not to mention the morale boosting in the movies that they starred in during the war years. Bravo to all.

[@tankjohnson5857]

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[@michaelgeorge595]

Also gave their lives. The lovely Carol Lombard died in a plane crash on her way home from raising bonds for WW2 . RIP❤

[@313pookie313]

wonderful film showing how the American people once loved their country, as never before.

[@justthink5854]

loved this tv show in the 60's. so glad for utube and the chance to easily see the classics. Hollywood was never perfect. it ground up many, but at least the people coming to sunny Cal for their dreamed of pots o gold had real life experiences to shape them. Mitchum rode the rails as a 15 yr old.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Very moving, especially when Judy Garland gives that amazing performance!

[@fromthesidelines]

From the "COMMAND PERFORMANCE" [AFRS] broadcast of November 13, 1943. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWPYgYmGirSBh8U

[@jgonzalez101]

Beautiful and very touching!

[@daviddigital6887]

What's left of Hollywood today couldn't be more different.

[@esmeephillips5888]

'John Wayne turns up at lonely outposts in the Australian bush country.' The lonelier the better, eh Duke?

[@judilake3646]

a different time... thank you for this!

[@tankjohnson5857]

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[@AllenCaraway]

Thanks for sharing.

[@tankjohnson5857]

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[@tomservo56954]

Read the book FIVE CAME BACK...the story of the quintet of film directors who went to war--along with Wyler and Huston mentioned here, it included John Ford, Frank Capra and George Stevens.

[@jerrywatt6813]

I did it was great !

[@dannyrussom6637]

That's in the time when Americans were proud to be an American we use to admire our movie Stars . today's actors and actresses are selfish money-hungry publicity hounds who don't give two shakes about the people who paid large amounts of money to watch them in movie houses that made them famous granted there are some who give back and appreciate their fans but most don't care.! Shame on Hollywood I miss the good old days when actors knew how to act instead of the special effects doing it for them

[@jennifursun3303]

Bob Hope actually almost died, one of the hotels he was supposed to have stayed in was bombed that very night. he said there was a Hit out on him

[@tankjohnson5857]

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[@Droodog127]

his Catalina PBY crash landed as well almost killing him

[@oldermusiclover]

@@Droodog127 ok may have read that one too and forgot about it

[@tomservo56954]

Anyone check out Crosby?

[@mikealvord55]

That was in Vietnam!

[@mikehiggins946]

Anybody who was in the South Pacific between 1941 and 1945 almost died.

[@fromthesidelines]

0:21- Yvonne DeCarlo.

[@jerrywatt6813]

What a looker my god!

[@fromthesidelines]

She was originally groomed to take Maria Montez's place in all the "Arabian Nights' Technicolor adventures Universal was grinding out in the mid-1940's- but eventually, she proved to be more talented than Maria, and the studio gave her "meatier" parts in other kinds of movies by the end of the decade.

[@tomservo56954]

​@fromthesidelines "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp Then someone's mother Then you're camp Then you career from career to career"

[@tomservo56954]

@@fromthesidelines Where that clip came from... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqqrZYOpnt2Lna8si=wdLZx0RTPn88bqsg&t=167

[@josephmazzotta8813]

They did their job and the job and did it well 🇺🇸.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on January 27, 1964.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Monday night. I was born the following morning.

[@jamesdunn9714]

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" is a fitting way to end this short film. Very poignant.

[@tankjohnson5857]

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[@fromthesidelines]

16:49- Frances Langford.

[@esmeephillips5888]

Probably the forces' biggest sweetheart in WW2. Hope said Frances drove herself so hard that she hit the bottle and had to be sent home.

[@fromthesidelines]

That's why she did a 1945 summer replacement program (for Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy), with Spike Jones and his City Slickers, from military hospitals and installations. She wanted to continue her part to aid the war effort, even if she was stateside.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@fromthesidelines Great gal. Loved her as the saucy waitress who is wooed by Buddy Ebsen as a sailor in 'Born to Dance'. Ebsen: You know, I'm getting out of the service in two weeks. Langford: Yeah, I read they were strengthening the Navy.

[@richardque1036]

Back then.american is very patriotic.

[@evelyn7881]

Those canteens and entertainment were closed to Black soldiers.

[@tdirtyatl]

"The Greatest Generation."

[@angelinasamson6996]

❤️🙏❤️

[@johnallen7259]

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[@TheBenzooh]

no wonder hollywood feel like they are so important and better than everyone else. just look at the today lol cringe fest

[@GarrettDavis-nu3ti]

When I think of today's Un-American, ( & proud of it) Movie- "Star's" my stomach turns. Their Grandparents, & ( esp) Great Grandparents are rolling over in their graves. ( Gramp's was a segregationist, though most likely. That's true too.) Can't have everything.

[@jimmyjohnston8287]

SHITE.

[@shellnexus1]

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[@tankjohnson5857]

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[@tomservo56954]

And don't think Ciro isn't happy about the news...

[@richardque1036]

Back then.american is very patriotic.