Film studio chatter on wartime service and civilian status for actors
Western Union dispatch notes Virginia Vale Obert Walker Keenan Wynn and others on MGM lot discussing filming plans for What Next Corporal Har grove Several actors face civilian status as they spent many years in uniform Van Johnson Keenan Wynn and Wynn injuries alter status Tommy Dorsey to star in a musical for United Artists tentatively titled My Brother Leads a Band scheduled to shoot within the next twelve weeks on the coast during his radio program
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Keenan Wynn
M-G-M
Corporal Hargrove
Wynn
Walker
Bob
van Johnson
Tommy Dorsey
Brother
United Artists
Hollywood Stars and Soldiers Rife With Dreams and Duty
Kenny Gardner, now in the armed forces, earns the Bronze Star while married to Elaine Lombardo. In Hollywood lore, many chase stardom with grit, from Jane Russell’s tailored bathing suits to Shirley Temple’s army hospital tours. Laraine Day collects 16mm films, linking early cinema memories to today’s war effort.
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Guy Lombardo
Armed Forces
Kenny
Elaine Lombardo
Guy
Patton
Third Army
Now It Can Be Told Series and Radio Notes
Twenty government agencies supply material for the Now It Can Be Told program hosted by Dan Seymour with weekday evening dramatizations of unrevealed material. Eileen Farrell weighs a South America concert tour. Ralph Bell’s joins a new radio show Prof Broadway and Bertram after Crime Doctor. Trudy Erwin wears diamond musical clef earrings during By Request. Dick Fowell gathers material for a haunted hotel movie scenario with a detective role played by himself.
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Mutual
Dan Seymour
Eileen Farrell
South America
Ralph Bell
Tts
Broadway
Bertram
Trudy Erwin
Dick Fowell
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