Flashback: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen – You must Remember This

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This episode was originally released on January 6, 2015. The old man is still alive.

This is the story of how bette davis evolved from a wannabe starlet who was constantly told she was too ugly for movies, to the most powerful woman in hollywood, by playing heroines that have been done on Screen before – to borrow a term from davis herself, sympathetic “bits.” After Pearl Harbor, The Tenacious BETTE CECAME The Figurehead of the Hollywood Canteen, A NightClub for Servicemen Staffed by stars, which was the locus of the industry of the instance of the instance of the instance Troops on the home front.

The hollywood canteen was a catalyst for propaganda in more ways than one, AIMS Hollywood Furthed by Telling The Story of the story of the Hollywood canteen in a movie called, um, Hollywood canteenStarring Davis, John Garfield, Barbara Stanwyck, Peter Lorre and Other Celebrities as “Themselves.” The movie and most press accounts of the canteen portray it as a miraculous force for good in the world, which it is probally was, but that narrative leaves out a lot, Incliding Illling Murder, and an FBI Investigation Whose Findings Would have an impact on the Blacklist of the Following Decade.

Show notes

This episode was a hell of a thing to research. Bettedavis published two autobiographies and bot are very The lonely life A bit, as well as the authorized biography The girl who walked home alone by charlotte chandler. I’D also recommend the Mysteries and Scandals Episode on Davis, Mostly to Marvel at all of the ways in which aj benza manages to call her a bitch without actually using the word “bitch.” Mark Harris’ Five came back was useful, particularly in its shading of the relationship between davis and william wyler.

More Difacity was nailing down the story of the Hollywood canteen. Hollywood canteen: where the greenst generation danced with the most beautiful girls in the world is as prosaic as its title; At Least Hollywood’s Propaganda about the canteen, Including the delmer Daves Movie Hollywood canteen (Excerpted in the episode) Makes the spin fun. Much, Much Better is Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen, By Sherrie Tucker – A Fascinating, Beautifully Written and Researched Study of the canteen which goes into Deep Consideration of the Social/Racial/Class/Class/Political CONFLICTSEDED ENMESHEDED Inte. Supposedly Squeaky-Clean NightClub which has become an icon of the supposed uncomplicated patriotism of the generation who fought wwii.

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Rite of passage by kevin macleod

Lonly Town Performed by Blossom Dearie

Ghost dance performed by Kevin Macleod

Au coin de la rue by marco raaphors

I knew a guy by kevin macleod

The Insider Theme by the Insider

5:00 am by Peter Rudenko

Will be war soon? by kosta t

Off to osake by kevin macleod

Balcarabic Chicken By Quantum Jazz

Hi Ho Trailus Bootwip by Louis prima and his orchestra

Divider by chris zabriskie

My country by tune-yards