Word: canteeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie industry has presented Hollywood Canteen (TIME, Jan. 15), as I understand it, as a portrayal of the job it's doing as a war industry. . . . We saw the picture last night. . . . It catered to one of our most grievous needs: there were lovely American girls in it. But an uneasiness crept over us early. When the hero came out of the Canteen with Joan Leslie . . . and stood staring at the beautiful car likewise awaiting his pleasure, the guy sitting next to me called, "Watch out, buddy-it's a booby-trap...
...Hollywood Canteen" is a throwback to the all-star musicals of last spring. In a belated sequel to "Thank Your Lucky Stars," Warners' has thrown together 62 stars from Jack Carson to Joseph Szigeti in a lengthy series of songs and dances...
Movieland evidently didn't realize the smugness of "Four Jills in a Jeep" for here again the cinemagnates proudly pat themselves on the back for their efforts. Through the entire picture there is an endless account of how hard Hollywood has worked to set up the canteen and how wonderful it is. The self-praise reaches its peak when the usual representative of Flatbush praises the canteen with, "Dat's real democracy for ya; all dem big shots listening ta us little shots...
...plot, like something out of Arabian Nights, takes Robert Hutton, amorous Yale man in "Janie," rapidly from New Guinea, to the Hollywood canteen, the arms of Joan Leslie, and almost the altar, before a troop train arrives to carry him off. The story's main excuse is to try to form a link between the musicalia, which appear every ten minutes. Like "Thank Your Lucky Stars" and "Thousands Cheer," this movie is just an unoriginal variation on the star parade theme...
Hollywood Canteen (Warner). It was Warner Bros.' idea that in this picture about Hollywood's focal point of patriotism-in-person, stars of all studios should forget their differences and twinkle at each other in the friendliest of spirits. The refusal of the other studios to see it their way had much to do with Warners' withdrawal from the Hays Office. The effect on the picture has been, on the whole, unfortunate. Unable to make it clear that the Canteen is an all-Hollywood affair, Warner Bros, has gone rather more than all out the other...