WW2 – The Stars & Their Stories – PT3.
ASTAIRE, Fred With the USO in 1944 […]
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WW2 – The Stars & Their Stories – PT1.
When I first decided to write about the wartime stories of movie personnel touched by the Second World War, I thought of categorizing individuals, of presenting my findings under group headings: ‘Those who saw action, those […]
HOLLYWOOD & WW2 – PT1.
When World War Two started in September 1939, studio moguls in Hollywood faced a dilemma. Most of these men were Jewish and hailed from European countries about to be subjected to Nazi occupation. Nazi treatment of Jews was common knowledge, yet the studio heads seemed far more concerned with […]