The Hollywood Victory Committee BOND SELLING
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Actors Equity Association American Federation of Radio Artists American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc. American Guild of Variety Artists American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Artists' Managers Guild Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. S INCE the Hollywood Victory Committee BOND SELLING .. in six war loan drives was organized on Dec. 10, 1941, three days THE activities summarized in 233 Victory Committee volunteers have made Hollywood Writers Mobilization after Pearl Harbor, 3564 performers-the stars extended tours for the Treasury Department, this report are the result of a and featured players of screen and radio, con others have taken part in 214 broadcasts, 93 mobilization of forces through Independent Motion Picture cert artists, celebrities of stage ad night clubs, transcriptions, and 527 individual personal ap Producers Association variety artists-have traveled an estimated pearances. out Hollywood's entertainment 4,000,000 miles to make 37,979 free appear PATRIOTIC BROADCASTS . .. one hundred Independent Publicists Association ances. They have served the armed forces, industry, to the end that all ma broadcasts and transcriptions have been made government agencies, war relief and charity for the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, jor organizations and their mem Public Information Committee and our allies in 5680 events, with an average of the Motion Picture Industry 317 for OWI and other government agencies, bers might best contribute to the of 35 players appearing every day. [In the 116 for charity. Victory Committee's third year they have total effect of free appearances Motion Picture Producers stepped up the average to 48 appearances a AID FOR CANADA . .. in seven Victory by the industry's personalities in and Distributors of America, Inc. day in a total of 2363 events. J Loan drives, 37 Hollywood stars have played 132 days in Canada. behalf of the war effort. Only FOR THE FIGHTING FRONTS . co-operat The Radio Networks ing with USO Camp Shows, Inc., the Victory ON THE SCREEN ... co-operating with the through co-ordinating activities Committee has assigned 139 guest stars to War Activities Committee of the Motion Pic Musicians Mutual Protective Assn. of groups which make up a com overseas tours. ture Industry, top stars have made 37 film shorts for distribution in 16,000 theaters; 17 for IN CAMPS AND HOSPITALS ... within the plete cross-section of Hollywood Radio Writers Guild government agencies, 5 for Army, 3 for Navy, continental United States, 341 players have is it possible to utilize to best ad 6 for charity, 6 for miscellaneous drives; 25 given 4545 playing days to make 324 camp Screen Actors G uild were made in the past year. vantage the contributions of tal and hospital tours. ent organizations - Screen Ac Screen Directors Guild WAR RELIEF AND CHARITY . .. Red Cross, EN ROUTE TO COMBAT .. Victory Com Infantile Paralysis Foundation, the War Chest, tors Gu i 1 d , AFRA, AGMA, mittee-USO Camp Shows troupes have played Army Emergency Relief Fund, Navy Relief So Screen Publicists Guild AGVA, Actors Equity - and of 1510 one-night stands at West Coast embarka ciety and other charitable agencies have been tion points, on ships in West Coast harbors Screen Writers Guild aided through extended tours by 41 players, Hollywood Writers Mobilization, and for concentrations of troops in the South through 248 radio broadcasts and transcrip tions and 381 individual personal appearances. which provides the players' ma Society of Independent ern California area. terial. The Hollywood Victory Motion Picture Producers ENTERTAINMENT ON THE .AIR ... aiding EVERY P.ATRIOTIC CAUSE ... The Hoily wood Victory Committee has filled requests Committee represents the com the War Department's Armed Forces Radio Southern California Broadcasters Service, star-studded casts have made 1574 for 1650 different projects, many of them con tinuing programs involving hundreds of ap bined efforts of the twenty-two Association entertainment transcriptions solely for trans pearances. Stars have served every patriotic organizations here listed. Theater Authority, Inc. mission to American and allied fighting forces cause which could be aided by talent con outside the continental United States. tributions. WEEKS ON THE FOXHOLE CIRCUIT WITH ALLIED battle fronts spreading over the globe and American troops Larry Adler Mary Elliott * . Mitzi Mayfair * pouring into every overseas theater of operation during the past year, Hol Brian Aherne Mary Jo Ellis Joel McCrea lywood stars stepped up the tempo of their overseas activity to take enter Louise Allbritton Jinx Falkenburg * Frank McHugh Morey Amsterdam Gracie Fields Kitty McHugh tainment to G. I. Joe from Attu to New Zealand, from Normandy to Chung- Judith Anderson •• Errol Flynn Fay McKenzie Marvelle Andre Eddie Foy, Jr. Florine McKinney king. Co-operating with USO Camp Shows, Inc., the Hollywood Victory Desi Arnaz Kay Francis • Sidney Melton Committee sent 51 troupes into combat zones in 1944, boosting to 139 the to Fred Astaire Ticker Freeman Adolphe Menjou Harry Akst Reginald Gardiner Una Merkel tal of name personalities who have journeyed overseas. Don Barclay • John Garfield * Mayo Methot Don Barry William Gargan Ray Milland One feminine star flew 50,000 miles to cover the scattered islands m the Joan Barton Billy Gilbert * Rosita Moreno Jack Benny * Lally Gilbert * Dick Morgan Pacific. Four of the top names of show business were among the 18 USO Edgar Bergen * Ned Glass Patricia Morison troupes that landed on the "Omaha" and "Utah" beachheads in the early Ingrid Bergman Paulette Goddard Eileen Nilsson Harry Berman Carl Grayson Elsa Nilsson days of Normandy fighting. Two of them played the Palace- of Versailles. Joan Blondell Charlotte Greer Merle Oberon A great singing star did a show at Metz while heavy fighter cover hummed Ben Blue Jack Haley Pat O'Brien * Humphrey Bogart Neil Hamilton Martha O'Driscoll overhead to keep Nazi planes out of the audience. Ray Bolger • Merrial Harvout Theodore Paxson Mary Brian * Jascha Heifetz * Del Porter Glamorous celebrities appeared as close to the front as military expedi Phyllis Brooks Bob Hope *** George Raft Harry Brown Marsha Hunt Luise Rainer ency would allow, and many times they visited evacuation hospitals and Joe E. Brown ** Betty Hutton Martha Raye Jim Burke Red Ingle Marjorie Reynolds brought smiles again to boys who had watched their show the day before. James Cagney Allen Jenkins •• Ritz Brothers Joseph Calleia Al Jolson * Edward G. Robinson * They maintained an average of 11 weeks per tour overseas in every cli Ruth Carrell * Spike Jones Tony Romano ** June Clyde * Paul King Randolph Scott mate under the sun, playing to the Army, Navy and Marines, and often to Nick Cochrane Mary Landa Ann Sheridan our Allies. Jerry Colonna * * Carole Landis * Teddi Sherman Gary Cooper Frances Langford *** Dinah Shore With this background, the Victory Committee and USO Camp Shows Herman Crone Laurel & Hardy Art Smith Bing Crosby Anna Lee Frank Sully arrived at the threshold of their biggest job, when the shooting is over and Linda Darnell Beauregard Lee Helen Talbot the stress of battle subsides into the monotony of occupation. Chick Daugherty Sam Levene Martha Tilton Olivia de Havilland * Joe E. Lewis Mabel Todd Joe DeRita Herbert Locke Spencer Tracy To meet the multiplied need which the War Department expects, USO Andy Devine Ella Logan Vera Vague Marlene Dietrich * Albert Hay Malotte John Wayne Camp Shows has announcd a program to continue beyond the end of the Jimmy Dodd Irene Manning Bert Wheeler war, and through the Hollywood Victory Committee the players have Paul Draper Fredric March Chill Wills Ann Dvorak Johnny Marvin Anna May Wong pledged to support this program. Nelson Eddy Chico Marx Keenan Wynn Ilona Massey *-two tours; **-three tours; ***-four tours. * ** .* G. I. CIRCUIT HONOR ROLL APPEARANCES IN HOSPITALS AND CAMPS ******* Walter Abel * Claire Carleton Sigrid Gurie Fred MacMurray Dave Rose Brian Aherne * Alan Carney Anne Gwynne Marjorie Main Maxie Rosenbloom frank Albertson Sue Carol Alan Hale Irene Manning * Shirley Ross Betty Alexander Leo Carrillo Barbara Hale Adele Mara Dave Rubinoff June Allyson Georgia Carroll Marian Hall * Alan Marshall Harry Ruby Don Ameche Jack Carson Porter Hall Trudy Marshall Charles Ruggles HOLLYWOOD Victory Committee a nd USO Ca mp Shows tours for G . I.'s Allen Ames Lynne Carver William Hall Marion Martin * Rosalind Russell * Eddie Anderson Chick Chandler Mary Jane Halsey * Nora Martin Ann Rutherford on the home front entered a n ew a nd even more importa nt phase in 1944. Heather Angel Marguerite Chapman ** Sir Cedric Hardwicke Groucho Marx Peggy Ryan Edward Arnold Lois Collier Marie Harmon Harpo Marx **** Sheila Ryan ** Millions of men moved overseas a nd thousands ca me home as battle ca sua l Jean Arthur Tom Conway Neila Hart Osa Massen Kay St. Germaine Fred Astaire Gary Cooper Signe Hasso * Ilona Massey Ann Savage ** ties. The emphasis shifted from tra ining camps to hospitals. Previously, Roy Atwell Jackie Cooper * Gabby Hayes Ray Mayer Sandra Shaw Lenore Aubert Ernest Cossart Rita Hayworth Frances McCann * Elaine Shepard * hospital visits had been a pa rt of camp tours; in the past year, camp tours Mischa Auer Joan Crawford Hugh Herbert Joel McCrea Ann Sheridan fay Bainter *** Jeanine Crispin Lou Holtz Grace McDonald Dinah Shore ** became incidental to hospita l visits. Kenny Baker Bi ng Crosby Miriam Hopkins Marie McDonald Felice Shore Lucille Ball Alan Curtis Lena Horne Marcy McGuire Phil Silvers ** Tom Barbour Linda Darnell Elaine Haslett Frank McHugh Ginny Simms In the la st fe w months of the year, 90 personalities made 1545 appea r Don Barclay Laraine Day Carol Hughes Fay McKenzie Red Skelton Lynn Bari * Francis Dee Marsha Hunt Victor McLaglen Charles Smith ances on 68 tours of Army genera l hospitals, Navy and Ma rine hospita ls i3innie Barnes O livia de Havilland Ruth Hussey Done.Id Meek Gale Sondergaard * Don Barry Albert Dekker ** Betty Hutton Adol,.,he Menjou Ann Sothern and convalescent homes and Air Force redistribution centers, augmenting Anne Baxter Wi ll iam Demarest * Inez James Uno.