I know my father served from almost the start of World War II until 1946 when it was all over. He was nineteen and studying pre-med when he enlisted. He told me that the carnage he witnessed during the war caused him to study something else, entirely, when he came…
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She sizzled onscreen with the hottest leading men in Hollywood—Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Charles Boyer, Robert Donat, James Stewart, Ronald Colman—but Marlene Dietrich’s most memorable co-star may have been a balding, jowly, irascible middle-aged man. While entertaining the troops during World War II, she ventured within a mile of the German…
Mr. Lester’s family is from Seattle, one of two places in the United States (before Global Warming) where doctors recommended you live if you had sun allergies. No kidding. It was dreary and drizzled nearly every day. Back in the 1940s Mr. Lester’s father, and his best friend Marvin, went…
Sergeant Joe Lewis visits the set of “Action in the North Atlantic”. From left to right Humphrey Bogart, Joe Lewis, Raymond Massey, Lloyd Bacon.
Jimmy Stewart joins the Army – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times.
Clark Gable joins the Army – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times.