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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12: Madonna, from Sean to Warren, Part One

12: Madonna, from Sean to Warren, Part One

Over the course of two episodes, we will explore the high-cinephile period of Madonna's life and work, roughly bracketed by her relationship with Sean Penn and ending with the dissolution of her rebou...

2 Syys 201439min

11: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes: Katharine Hepburn, 1938

11: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes: Katharine Hepburn, 1938

A crossover episode, uniting our two ongoing series, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes and Follies of 1938, focusing on Hughes’ relationship with Katharine Hepburn, which peaked and crashed in 1938. Int...

25 Heinä 201431min

10: Follies of 1938, Chapter 2: Kay Francis, Pretty Poison

10: Follies of 1938, Chapter 2: Kay Francis, Pretty Poison

In May 1938, the Independent Theater Owners Association published a full-page paid editorial in The Hollywood Reporter, branding a number of big stars — including Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Gar...

18 Heinä 201438min

9: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Part 2: The Many Loves of Ida Lupino

9: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Part 2: The Many Loves of Ida Lupino

In this second installment of our ongoing series, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, we explore the life, loves and work of Ida Lupino. Hughes dated Lupino when she was a teenage starlet; nearly 20 year...

10 Heinä 201439min

8: Follies of 1938, Part 1: Hollywood’s Greatest Year

8: Follies of 1938, Part 1: Hollywood’s Greatest Year

This micro-episode sets up a topic we’ll be exploring throughout the summer: the films, stars and scandals of 1938. By midway through that year, Hollywood was in such a desperate downswing — and so co...

2 Heinä 201422min

7: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Chapter 1

7: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Chapter 1

The first episode of a multi-part series on the Hollywood romances of Howard Hughes traces Hughes’ arranged marriage at age 18 to Southern society belle Ella Rice; his affairs with silent star Billie ...

24 Kesä 201441min

6: Isabella Rossellini in the 1990s

6: Isabella Rossellini in the 1990s

Today we celebrate the 62nd birthday of actress/model/filmmaker Isabella Rossellini. She was born into Hollywood scandal: her mother, Ingrid Bergman, was denounced on the floor of Congress for her adu...

17 Kesä 201437min

5: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Judy Garland

5: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Judy Garland

Today we’re commemorating the life and career of Judy Garland, who died 45 years ago this month. Signed to a studio contract at the age of 13, encouraged to become a pill addict as a teenage MGM contr...

9 Kesä 201441min

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