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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569648371
Format: NTSC, Black & White
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 76742
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1944
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The Hollywood Canteen was a club for GIs where Joan Crawford might over- easy you some eggs and John Garfield might scrub out the frying pan. The movie Hollywood Canteen is a snappy, starry salute to that World War II landmark, built around a storyline involving a corporal who wins a date with winsome Joan Leslie. At ease, soldiers, as real-life canteen co-founders Bette Davis and Garfield plus dozens more luminaries - from Jack Benny to Barbara Stanwyck to Roy Rogers and Trigger - dazzle the troops and modern fans in a great big scrambled vaudeville show with enough talent to have made a dozen fine movies' (Howard Barnes, New York Herald Tribune).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Dreadful wartime musical in extensive package
During the 2nd World War, Bette Davis and John Garfield formed the Hollywood Canteen, a site where servicemen could meet and be entertained by Hollywood stars. It was a mammoth undertaking and a natural for Warner Brothers with which to build a war time musical. Unfortunately, they saddled the "review" with a really poor screenplay whereby a lonely soldier realises his wish to meet Joan Leslie. Originally, the role was to be played by Ann Sheridan but she went on suspension rather than play such ... Read More
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