Tag: WWII
October 29, 2013 /

Dusty Anderson: what a witch! – pin-up, model, actress – married director Jean Negulesco and retired

October 17, 2013 /

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let us not be afraid to help each other—let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.    

October 17, 2013 /

Winston Churchill

Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
October 9, 2013 /

Tex Avery reinterprets The Three Little Pigs – The Blitz Wolf (1942)

October 5, 2013 /

Measuring up – and wardrobe malfunctions

A little bird in the wardrobe department chirped this item in my ear –she was having a hard time getting actors under thirty to put on their underwear. Besides the obvious issues of hygiene what you wear under your costume affects how the garments look on top. Children, it isn’t…

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May 27, 2013 /

HOLLYWOOD AND THE WAR EFFORT – PHOTOGRAPHED BY JACK WOODS

Sergeant Joe Lewis visits the set of “Action in the North Atlantic”. From left to right Humphrey Bogart, Joe Lewis, Raymond Massey, Lloyd Bacon.

May 27, 2013 /

Jimmy Stewart joins the Army – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times

Jimmy Stewart joins the Army – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times.

May 27, 2013 /

Clark Gable 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.

May 27, 2013 /

Book Review: Hollywood and Hitler – WSJ.com

In 1938, when she (Leni Riefenstahl) came to Los Angeles in the hope of scoring a big-money contract, she was given short shrift. Having denied that the Nazis were anti-Semitic even as footage of their Kristallnacht campaign was being shown around the world, she was told by an unnamed “refugee…

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January 25, 2013 /

SS CAROLE LOMBARD – JANUARY 15, 1944

A bereaved Clark Gable looks on as Irene Dunne christens the ship with Louis B. Mayer looking on, the date commemorated the second anniversary of Carole Lombard’s record breaking bond drive for WWII.