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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys here again to ponder what the Tinseltown version of a World War II “canteen” was like. Yesterday we told of the glories of the 1943 film “Stage Door Canteen — A Soldier’s Story,” and how it’s not to be missed by anyone who wants […]
Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your Classic Movie guys, back again with another meditation about the amazing show biz “canteens” of World War II. The 1943 film “Stage Door Canteen — A Soldier’s Story” not only provided entertainment for the troops and folks back home, but it captured some of the best entertainers […]
If this photo (above) looks familiar, that’s because if you are a regular reader it is. It’s marvelous still from the 1943 musical comedy romance distributed by United Artists, “Stage Door Canteen.” We just had to share it with you again. There they are — a svelte, smiling Ethel Waters standing at the microphone in […]
Rummaging through Joe’s extensive photo library one afternoon, Frank — a devout jazz fan since adolescence — was pleasantly taken aback at the discovery of a marvelous still from the 1943 musical comedy romance distributed by United Artists, “Stage Door Canteen.” We just had to share it with you (see above). There they are […]