Flashback: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen

Flashback: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen

This episode was originally released on January 6, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. This is the story of how Bette Davis evolved from a wannabe starlet who was constantly told she was too ugly for movies, to the most powerful woman in Hollywood, by playing heroines that had never been seen on screen before — to borrow a term from Davis herself, sympathetic “bitches.” After Pearl Harbor, the tenacious Bette became the figurehead of the Hollywood Canteen, a nightclub for servicemen staffed by stars, which was the locus of the industry’s most visible support of the troops on the home front. The Hollywood Canteen was a catalyst for propaganda in more ways than one, aims Hollywood furthered by telling the story of the Hollywood Canteen in a movie called, um, Hollywood Canteen, starring Davis, John Garfield, Barbara Stanwyck, Peter Lorre and other celebrities as “themselves.” The movie and most press accounts of the Canteen portray it as a miraculous force for good in the world, which it probably was, but that narrative leaves out a lot, including illicit affairs, a murder, and an FBI investigation whose findings would have an impact on the blacklist of the following decade To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Flashback: Marilyn Monroe – The End

Flashback: Marilyn Monroe – The End

This episode was originally released on March 21, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. How did a star whose persona seemed to be all about chi...

28 Maalis 202552min

Henry Hathaway (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 11)

Henry Hathaway (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 11)

Henry Hathaway started directing in the early 1930s and though he made movies of all genres, he was particularly associated with Westerns. This allowed him to ride out the 1960s making pretty much the...

25 Maalis 20251h 16min

William Wyler 1965-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 10)

William Wyler 1965-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 10)

For over 40 years, William Wyler was one of Hollywood’s most dependable classicists, culminating in 1968 with the ultimate New Hollywood-era throwback to Old Hollywood, Funny Girl. Then, for his final...

18 Maalis 20251h 8min

Billy Wilder 1961-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 9)

Billy Wilder 1961-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 9)

Hollywood’s 1960s began with Billy Wilder winning three Oscars for The Apartment. But Wilder’s biggest success would also prove to be his last film to be afforded such respectability, as Wilder largel...

11 Maalis 20251h 8min

Flashback: Sammy and Dino — Generation Gap

Flashback: Sammy and Dino — Generation Gap

This episode was originally released on December 14, 2021. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. In the mid-1960s, 47 year-old Dean Martin proves he's...

7 Maalis 20251h 24min

George Stevens 1958-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 8)

George Stevens 1958-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 8)

As a cameraman during World War II, George Stevens shot footage of the liberation of Dachau that showed the world the horrors of the Holocaust – and scarred Stevens himself for life. Pre-war, he had b...

4 Maalis 20251h 13min

Flashback: LIZ <3 MONTY

Flashback: LIZ <3 MONTY

This episode was originally released on October 28, 2014. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift were best friend...

28 Helmi 202542min

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