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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Entertaining the troops [videorecording] : American entertainers in World War II / Musicam Limited ; produced, written and directed by Robert Mugge.

Edition:

Fullscreen version.

Publisher, Date:

Pottstown, PA : MVD Visual, 2015.

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

"World War II affected everyone, and everyone found his or her own way of helping the cause. For American entertainers, choices included enlisting, selling war bonds, visiting the wounded, and entertaining the troops. In this documentary, filmmaker Robert Mugge pays tribute to hundreds of well-known (and not so well-known) performers who assisted the military both at home and abroad"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003.

Entertainers -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Humor.

American wit and humor.

Historical films.

Documentary films.

Stand-up comedy routines.

Nonfiction films.

United States -- Armed Forces -- Recreation.

Other Author:

Mugge, Robert, 1950- direction.

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003.

Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977.

Benny, Jack, 1894-1974.

Lamour, Dorothy, 1914-1996.

Langford, Frances.

Abbott, Bud, 1897-1974

Costello, Lou.

Horne, Lena.

Landis, Carole, 1919-1948.

Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994.

Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986.

Kaye, Danny.

Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977.

Adler, Larry.

Kyser, Kay.

Daley, Cass.

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989.

Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957.

Cagney, James, 1899-1986.

Dietrich, Marlene.

Lombard, Carole, 1908-1942.

Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973.

Blanc, Mel.

Roland, Erich.

Andrews Sisters.

Musicam Limited (Firm)

MVD Visual (Firm)

Other Title:

Bob Hope : entertaining the troops : American entertainers in World War II

American entertainers in World War II

Notes:

Originally released as a documentary film in 2015.

Director of photography, Erich Roland ; editor, Robert Mugge.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Frances Langford, The Andrews Sisters, Abbott and Costello, Lena Horne, Carole Landis, Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Danny Kaye, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Larry Adler, Kay Kyser, Cass Daley, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Edward G. Robinson, Mel Blanc.

DVD.

In English.

ISBN:

0760137712893

Publisher Number:

MVD7128D

Other Number:

911413686

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

548996

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 940.54 Entertai

Medium:

[videorecording]