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Homefront Collection (This Is the Army / Thank Your Lucky Stars / Hollywood Canteen) (1942)
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| Starring: | Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, John Garfield, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Benny, Joan Crawford, Eddie Cantor, Olivia de Havilland, George Murphy, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel, George Tobias, Charles Butterworth, Alan Hale, Dolores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges, Frances Langford, Kate Smith, Don Wilson, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Eleanor Parker, Roy Rogers, Joe E. Brown, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews |
| Director: | Michael Curtiz, David Butler, Delmer Daves |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama, Musicals, Romance |
| Year: | 1942 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 376 minutes |
| Released: | November 11, 2008 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | Color, NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:
This Is the Army (1942)
From immigrant lad to All-American success story, Irving Berlin showed his abiding love for his adopted country with, among other cultural accomplishments, decades of Broadway hits, the unofficial national anthem God Bless America and the World War II spirit-lifter This Is the Army. On stage it featured 350 real-life GIs, giving their singing-and- dancing all to raise nearly $2 million (then an astronomical sum) for Army Emergency Relief. This lively screen adaptation features the same GI's plus George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Joan Leslie and guest stars Joe Louis, Kate Smith, Berlin himself and others in a tale of a father and son who put on one heckuva show before the son marches off to war.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Steven Spielberg Narrates the New Documentary Warner at War
- Commentary by Joan Leslie and Historian Dr. Drew Casper
- My British Buddy: Musical Number Not Seen in North American Theaters
- Overture and Exit Music Rejoined to the Film for the First Time in 65 Years
- Warner Night at the Movies 1943 Short Subject Gallery:
- Vintage Newsreel
- Musical Short The United States Army Band
- Classic Cartoon Confusions of a Nutsy Spy
- Trailers of This is the Army and 1943's Edge of Darkness
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
The stars come out to play in the joyous World War II-era Thank Your Lucky Stars. A breezy, behind-the-Hollywood-scenes story about young talents hoping for a big break glitters with specialty numbers featuring Golden Era greats. Highlight include Humphrey Bogart being out-tough-guyed by S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall and singers ranging from the gifted (Dinah Shore, Dennis Morgan) to the good sports (Errol Flynn, John Garfield). And Bette Davis' witty, wry, jitterbuggin rendition of They Either Too Young or Too Old by Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser is "the cherry on top" (Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical). Dig in!
BONUS FEATURES:
- Warner Night at the Movies 1943 Short Subject Gallery:
- Vintage Newsreel
- Musical Shorts
- Three Cheers for the Girls
- The United States Navy Band
- Patriotic Short Food and Magic
- Classic Cartoon Fallen Hare
- Trailers of Thank Your Lucky Stars and 1943's Watch on the Rhine
- Audio-Only Bonus: Radio Show Adaptation with the Film's Stars
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
The Hollywood Canteen was a club for GIs where Joan Crawford might over- easy you some eggs and John Garfield might scrub out the frying pan. The movie Hollywood Canteen is a snappy, starry salute to that World War II landmark, built around a storyline involving a corporal who wins a date with winsome Joan Leslie. At ease, soldiers, as real-life canteen co-founders Bette Davis and Garfield plus dozens more luminaries - from Jack Benny to Barbara Stanwyck to Roy Rogers and Trigger - dazzle the troops and modern fans in “a great big scrambled vaudeville show with enough talent to have made a dozen fine movies" (Howard Barnes, New York Herald Tribune).
BONUS FEATURES:
- Warner Night at the Movies 1944 Short Subject Gallery:
- Vintage Newsreel
- Patriotic Shorts
- I Am an American
- Proudly We Serve
- Report from the Front
- Classic Cartoons
- Herr Meets Hare
- Hollywood Canine Canteen
- Stage Door Cartoon
- Trailers of Hollywood Canteen and 1944's The Doughgirls
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