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Hollywood canteen

Title: Hollywood canteen [videorecording] / Warner Brothers Pictures ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; director, Delmer Daves ; producer, Alex Gottlieb ; original screenplay, Delmer Daves.
Publication: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1990, c1945.

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Description

1 videocassette (124 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Musical about a soldier who realizes a dream at a canteen run by movie stars in Hollywood during World War II.

Genre/Form

Features.
Motion pictures.
Musicals.

Note

Motion picture originally released by Warner Brothers Pictures in 1945 ; re-issued as a videotape by MGM/UA Home Video in 1990.

Credits (note)

Executive producer, Jack L. Warner ; director of photography, Bert Glennon ; musical numbers created and directed by Le Roy Prinz ; songs, various ; music adapted by Ray Heindorf ; musical direction, Leo F. Forbstein ; art direction, Leo Kuter ; costumes, Milo Anderson.

Performer (note)

Robert Hutton (Corporal Ed "Slim" Green), Dane Clark (Sergeant "Brooklyn" Nolan), Janis Paige (Angela), and others ; entertainers playing themselves are: the Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Joan Crawford, Helmut Dantine, Bette Davis, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale [senior], Paul Henreid, Andrea King, Joan Leslie, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Irene Manning, Joan McCracken, Dolores Moran, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, William Prince, Joyce Reynolds, John Ridgley, Roy Rogers and Trigger, S.Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Craig Stevens, Joseph Szigeti, Donald Woods, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey and his band, Carmen Cavallaro and orchestra, Golden Gate Quartet, Rosario and Antonio, and Sons of the Pioneers.

Contents

Dance contents: "What are you doin' the rest of your life?" / performed by Jack Carson and Jane Wyman -- "I'm getting corns for my country" / performed by the Andrews Sisters -- "You can always tell a Yank" / performed by Dennis Morgan, Joe E. Brown, and ensemble -- [Ballet rehearsal on a soundstage] / performed by Joan McCracken and ensemble -- Spanish gypsy dance / performed by Rosario and Antonio.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1972

ISBN

0792807561

OCLC

42486216
NYPY95-F179

Title

Hollywood canteen [videorecording] / Warner Brothers Pictures ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; director, Delmer Daves ; producer, Alex Gottlieb ; original screenplay, Delmer Daves.

Imprint

Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1990, c1945.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Cast

Robert Hutton (Corporal Ed "Slim" Green), Dane Clark (Sergeant "Brooklyn" Nolan), Janis Paige (Angela), and others ; entertainers playing themselves are: the Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Joan Crawford, Helmut Dantine, Bette Davis, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale [senior], Paul Henreid, Andrea King, Joan Leslie, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Irene Manning, Joan McCracken, Dolores Moran, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, William Prince, Joyce Reynolds, John Ridgley, Roy Rogers and Trigger, S.Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Craig Stevens, Joseph Szigeti, Donald Woods, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey and his band, Carmen Cavallaro and orchestra, Golden Gate Quartet, Rosario and Antonio, and Sons of the Pioneers.

Credits

Executive producer, Jack L. Warner ; director of photography, Bert Glennon ; musical numbers created and directed by Le Roy Prinz ; songs, various ; music adapted by Ray Heindorf ; musical direction, Leo F. Forbstein ; art direction, Leo Kuter ; costumes, Milo Anderson.

Added Author

Benny, Jack, 1894-1974. Performer

Brown, Joe E. (Joe Evan), 1892-1973. Performer

Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964. Performer

Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007. Performer

Carson, Jack, 1910-1963. Performer

Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977. Performer

Dantine, Helmut. Performer

Davis, Bette, 1908-1989. Performer

Emerson, Faye. Performer

Francen, Victor. Performer

Garfield, John. Performer

Greenstreet, Sydney. Performer

Hale, Alan, 1892-1950. Performer

Henreid, Paul. Performer

Hutton, Robert, 1920- Performer

King, Andrea, 1919-2003. Performer

Leslie, Joan, 1925-2015. Performer

Lorre, Peter. Performer

Lupino, Ida, 1918-1995. Performer

Manning, Irene, 1917- Performer

McCracken, Joan. Performer

Morgan, Dennis, 1908-1994. Performer

Paige, Janis. Performer

Parker, Eleanor, 1922-2013. Performer

Prince, William, 1913-1996. Performer

Reynolds, Joyce, 1924- Performer

Ridgley, John, 1909-1968. Performer

Rogers, Roy, 1911-1998. Performer

Sakall, S. Z., 1884-1955. Performer

Smith, Alexis, 1921-1993. Performer

Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990. Performer

Stevens, Craig, 1918- Performer

Szigeti, Joseph, 1892-1973. Instrumentalist

Woods, Donald, 1906-1998, performer.

Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007. Performer

Dorsey, Jimmy, 1904-1957. Musician

Cavallaro, Carmen, 1913-1989. Musician

Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977. Director

Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977. Screenwriter

Prinz, Le Roy, 1895-1983, choreographer.

Heindorf, Ray, -1980. Arranger

Gottlieb, Alex, 1906-1988. Producer

Forbstein, Leo F. Conductor

Kuter, Leo E., -1970. Designer

Anderson, Milo. Costume designer

Andrews Sisters.

Rosario and Antonio.

Golden Gate Quartet.

Sons of the Pioneers.

Warner Bros. Pictures.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1972

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