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Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, and Ernest Borgnine are among many stars who have portrayed naval personnel on film - but do their fans know that Fonda won a Bronze Star for his actions during Pacific naval encounters, that Bogart dropped a fleeing prisoner with his .45, that Montgomery was awarded a Bronze Star for his courageous performance of duty during the Normandy invasion, or that Borgnine hunted U-boats off America's East Coast?
A virtual who's who, this entertaining and historically accurate work brings to life these and dozens of other stars' naval and coast guard service backgrounds and film careers. It is drawn from interviews with the actors, diaries, letters, and official military and film industry archives.
Here you'll find out how John Howard won a Navy Cross, how Navy Hellcat ace Wayne Morris downed seven Japanese planes, how UDT frogman Aldo Ray reconned the Okinawa landing beaches, how Eddie Albert saved more than a dozen wounded marines on the bloody reefs of Tarawa, and how Hedy Lamarr patented World War II communications antijamming technology still in use today.
Rarely have movie stars' real lives been portrayed in such detail, including interesting anecdotes from their Hollywood careers and never-before-published photographs from their military careers, including Paul Newman as a Navy radioman/gunner who flew in torpedo bombers during World War II.
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Actors as sailors, United States, Biography, Motion picture actors and actresses, History of specific subjects, History, Biography / Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses, Military, Biographies & Memoirs / Biographies, General, Military - General, Military - Naval, Actors, biography, Motion picture actors and actresses, united statesPlaces
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Stars in blue: movie actors in America's sea services
2007, Naval Institute Press
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Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services (Bluejacket Books) (Bluejacket Books) (Bluejacket Books)
September 15, 2007, Naval Institute Press
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Stars in blue: movie actors in America's sea services
1997, Naval Institute Press
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