Movies Keep Fighters Connected With Home On Front Lines
Combat weary troops, relieved by replacements, watch 16 mm films via the Army Overseas Motion Picture service. New Hollywood releases are shipped to combat zones, with 11,782 programs sent overseas to entertain soldiers in rest areas, hospitals, and remote outposts.
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Hollywood
Army Overseas Motion Picture Service
New York City
War Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Red Cross
USO
Army Motion Picture Service
Army
Pearl Harbor
South Pacific
Sicily
Mussolini
Italy
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Pacific
Soldiers See More Pictures Than Civilians In War Zones
Army morale chief Maj. Gen. Frederick Osborn notes averages exceed 40 first run prints weekly for troops, with films from 19 overseas exchanges arriving by plane or boat. On Guadalcanal 104 shows ran one night and mobile units tour remote camps to bring entertainment to soldiers, even from foxholes.
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Pacific Theater
Frederick H. Osborn
U. S. Army
Morale Services Division
Army Service Forces
Overseas Motion Picture Service of
Pacific
Navy
Naval Stations
New Guinea
G.I
Osborn
Army
Screen Magazine
Pacific Islands
U. S
Frederick Osborn
Morale Services
States
Guadalcanal
Finschhafen
Army Overseas
Radio City
New York
Hollywood Notes From Virginia Vale on Rising Stars and Returns
Virginia Vale reports on Anny Kaye rising from Borscht Circuit camps to film stardom in Up in Arms and Sylvia Fine as his songwriter wife. She notes Jane Powell as Charlie McCarthy’s protégée, Adolf Menjou’s return to screen, Vincent Lopez guiding new talent, and other moves across radio and Hollywood including Jack Benny, Archie Andrews, and the Goldbergs.
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Anny Kaye
Samuel Goldwyn
New York
Sylvia Fine
Pattern No 8589 Suiting Sizes 12 to 42
Pattern No 8589 offered in sizes 12 14 16 18 20 40 and 42. Size 14 requires 442 yards of 39 inch material with an additional 4 percent allowance for a contrasting collar.
Mr Carr Found Friends Unsympathetic at Late Hour
The late William J. Carr of the state department visited a friend's house late at night. A second floor window answered with a wary question and a dismissive remark about walking instead of waking people to tell them about ASTto.
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Mr. Carr
William J. Carr
State Department
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Jane Powell
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Algeria
Vincent Lopez
Lopez
Betty
Marion Hutton
Karole Singer
Bruce Hayes
Ronald Colman
NBC
Montana
Ronald Colman Dunn
Colman
Dagwood
Arthur Lake
Blondie
Screen and Radio
Patricia van Cleve Lake
New Republic
New Faces
Jack Benny
Warner Bros
Archie Andrews
Mutual
Metropolitan Opera Company
Edith Herlick
Mezzosoprano
the Goldbergs
John Hodiak
Lana Turner
Ann Sothern
Maisie
RKO
Kenny
Rosalind Russell
Amos
N’ Andy
Madame Queen
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
America
Bellana
Kellogg’s
Jim
Fleischmann
Fleischmanns
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