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With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North Africa to the Pacific to act for "the boys". Later they continue their work but when the author Silver gets involved into McCarthy's campaign and is being fired by Eddie, Dixie turns away from him, too.
tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07

A musical about three sailors who have a 24-hour shore leave to enjoy New York. Chip tries but can't resist the advances of a lady cab driver; Ozzie gladly fills the role of a lovely anthropologist's "prehistoric man," and after much desperate searching, Gaby finds the model who isn't quite the glamorous celebrity he envisioned but nevertheless will do.

Contributors: Leonard Bernstein (Composer); Betty Comden (Author of screenplay, Author); Stanley Donen (Director); Arthur Freed (Producer); Betty Garrett (Actor); Adolph Green (Author of screenplay, Author); Gene Kelly (Actor, Director); Ann Miller (Actor); Jules Munshin (Actor); Frank Sinatra (Actor); Vera-Ellen (Actor).

tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07
tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07

The Hiltons are an average family living in a Midwestern town. The father of the household has waived his 3A status and enlisted to go overseas. His wife must now act as father and mother to their two daughters and keep their father's memory alive.

Contributors: Claudette Colbert (Actor); John Cromwell (Director); Jennifer Jones (Actor); David O. Selznick (Producer); Max Steiner (Composer); Shirley Temple (Actor); Margaret Buell Wilder (Author).

tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07

Rollicking wartime story of a romance between a soldier headed off to WWII and a hostess at New York City's fabled canteen.

And Kate Hepburn too...

belongs to LITA President's Forum project
tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her
tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07
In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way to whom they hadn't previously been all that nice. The two soon become firm friends and, with the other girls, become increasingly expert workers able to ride the jibes of the male workforce. As the war drags on Kay finally goes on a date with her trumpet playing foreman and life inevitably starts to get complicated.
tagged home_front lita by winkler4 ...on 23-JUN-07