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100 1 $aHoopes, Roy,$d1922-2009.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039848
245 10 $aWhen the stars went to war :$bHollywood and World War II /$cRoy Hoopes.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bRandom House,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxii, 357 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aOften told in the performers' own words, When the Stars Went to War is the story of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, and the other leading men who went into combat.
520 8 $aIt is the story of Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Cagney, Greer Garson, and a host of others who raised millions for the war effort by selling bonds, and of such luminaries as Marlene Dietrich, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Jack Benny, who put themselves in considerable danger entertaining troops at the front.
520 8 $aAnd, of course, it is the story of the ones who stayed behind: those who tried to enlist and were turned down, those who were given cushy home-front jobs, those who passed the time having love affairs with the spouses or lovers of fellow actors who had gone to war - the hardworking and the guilt-ridden.
520 8 $aPerhaps the stars' most important contribution to the war effort was the films they made, films that kept up morale and inspired America's fighting men. As one young G.I. put it, "Somehow it's better to be fighting for Lana Turner than it is to be fighting the Great Reich ... because she is all our girls rolled into one."
650 0 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vAnecdotes.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010102460
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMotion pictures and the war.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148447
852 00 $bglx$hPN1998.2$i.H67 1994