Categories: Culture, Entertainment, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Life, Movies, Photography, Travel, Truth & Rumors • Tags: front lines, Hollywood at War, Marlene Dietrich, Medal of Freedom, Memorial Day, USO, WWII
Categories: Architecture, Art, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized • Tags: Fred Astaire, Hollywood at War, Memorial Day, USO, Versailles, WWII
Categories: Cooking, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Politics, Thanksgiving • Tags: Bette Davis, Dinah Shore, drumstick, heaven, Hollywood, Hollywood Canteen, John Garfield, men in uniform, service men, Thanksgiving, turkey leg, USO, volunteers, War effort
Bette Davis and John Garfield decided something had to be done for the enlisted men who passed through Southern California… They secured a building at 1451 Cahuenga Boulevard and opened a USO club to be staffed by movies stars and entertainers. That’s Dezi Arnaz: That’s co-founder Bette Davis preparing to slice a formidable cake: John Garfield on the Canteen’s 1st birthday: Bette reviewing photos with Bob Hope and Marlene Dietrich – I see John Ford, Clark Gable… A separate post […]
Categories: Architecture, Choreography, Culture, Entertainment, fashion, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Politics, Relationships, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: Bette Davis, Bob Hope, Cahuenga Blvd., cake, coffee, dancing, Dezi Arnaz, John Garfield, Marlene Dietrich, Movie stars, service men, show, The Hollywood Canteen, USO, WWII
Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, Design, Entertaining, Entertainment, fashion, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Story, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized • Tags: drumstick, heaven, Hollywood, Hollywood Canteen, Hollywood WW2, Loretta Young, men in uniform, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, service men, Thanksgiving, USO, volunteers, War effort
Categories: Art, Blogging, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Life, Los Angeles, Movies, Music, New York, Photography, Relationships, Story, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: Bambú Bambú, Brazil, Brazilian Bombshell, Busby Berkeley, Carmen Miranda, Chica-Chica-Bum-Chic, comedian, Dancer, Down Argentine Way, Good Neighbor policy, Latin America, platform shoes, President Roosevelt, Singer, That Night in Rio, The Gang's All Here, The Girl in the Tutti Frutti Hat, USO, war bonds, Week-end in Havana, World War II
Service men during WWII enjoying a Thanksgiving meal at the Hollywood Canteen (thanks largely to the efforts of Bette Davis and John Garfield – somewhere in heaven y’all should take a bow) –
Categories: Cooking, Culture, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Politics, Thanksgiving • Tags: Bette Davis, heaven, Hollywood, Hollywood Canteen, John Garfield, men in uniform, service men, Thanksgiving, USO, volunteers, War effort
I just have to say I saw Endeavour over Griffith Park Observatory and the cheers and the glory and size and the way it banked and tipped its wings and the two fighter planes aloft and escorting in the bright blue California sky – and the impact that this vessel was in space and orbited Earth 4,700 times – okay, I’m done now. Burbank, where planes were built under camouflage: So, while movies were being shot at the studios in […]
Categories: Culture, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Movies, Photography, Science, Uncategorized • Tags: B-52, bombers, Burbank, camouflage, Endeavour, fighter planes, Griffith Park Observatory, LAX, Linda Darnell, Lockheed, Los Angeles, Lucille Ball, Marlene Deitrich, military, morale, movie studios, planes, soldiers, Space Shuttle, USO, War effort, WWII
