Hollywood Players
The Forties
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For Hollywood, World War II meant a greater demand for both escapist films and realistic war movies. So the film capital assembled a cast of hundreds to populate these motion pictures. This book focuses on 83 of the busiest actors, probing the lives and films of each of these notables. Among the many subjects presented in individual chapters are Robert Alda, the Andrews Sisters, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Turhan Bey, Eddie Bracken, Barbara Britton, Jack Carson, Steve Cochran, Tom Conway, Wendell Corey, Laird Cregar, Cass Daley, Billy De Wolfe, Bobby Driscoll, Dan Duryea, Wild Bill Elliott, Dale Evans, William Eythe, Betty Field, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nina Foch, Susanna Foster, Mona Freeman, Peggy Ann Garner, Farley Granger, Sydney Greenstreet, Signe Hasso, Sterling Hayden, Dick Haymes, Wanda Hendrix, John Hodiak, Celeste Holm, Tim Holt, Arthur Kennedy, Evelyn Keyes, Joan Leslie, Oscar Levant, Dorothy Malone, Lon McCallister, George Montgomery, Patricia Morison, Tom Neal, Donald O’Connor, Dennis O’Keefe, Janis Paige, Larry Parks, Robert Preston, Ella Raines, Gail Russell, Sabu, Martha Scott, Zachary Scott, Craig Stevens, Gale Storm, Sonny Tufts, Dooley Wilson, Teresa Wright, and Gig Young.
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