And they were there to welcome them home.
Petty is the only actor to portray Williams in New York City’s hit Off-Broadway musical, Lost Highway, where he won an Obie Award and earned multiple nominations for his performance.
During World War II, the best-known USO center in the U.S. was New York's Stage Door Canteen, celebrated in song and in the film "Stage Door Canteen" starring Katharine Hepburn and Groucho Marx.
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On one famous night in September 1944, the cast included Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Jack Buchanan, Beatrice Lillie and opera star Joan Hammond.
This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns.
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Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th street was too busy to lend itself to filming, thus the interiors were recreated in Hollywood).
I would have no hesitation recommending these to both family and friends.
Anyway, it is well worth watching. Our losses were bad, but I was surprised at the tribute paid to the Russian and Chinese servicemen (and women) whose losses were each in the multi-millions.
It made me think of how my dad's generation, without our over-bearing music industry, appreciated real classic music. All of the records for all of the Canteens were stored in an individual's garage after the war and were later destroyed in a fire. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
The official estimate of attendance on the canteen's opening night was 1 Stage Door Canteen (New York, N.Y.) Genres Photographs Type of Resource Still image Identifiers Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f55a6c00-ffc6-012f-2809-58d385a7bc34 Rights Statement The violinist seemed out of place until you see the crowd, enthralled, quiet, and admiring, politely keeping quiet, and then the applause. The Stage Door Canteen was an entertainment venue for American and Allied servicemen that operated in the Broadway theatre district of New York City throughout World War II.
I so envy their patriotism. It was the Stage Door Canteen in the Broadway theater district. And all this was for free.Left: entrance to the Stage Door Canteen, New York.
On its opening night entertainers included a comedian, a ballet dancer, and actors Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, and … Excellent. "Dakota" Smith (William Terry), a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and movies appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. What a fabulous film! By the way, both "Canteens" were real places servicemen could go and eat, be entertained and even meet some famous performers. Probably shows up better now than it did on the small town screen where I first saw it circa 1944. I associated this with the movie "The Harvey Girls" (1946) with Judy Garland where girls met the trains and served the passengers meals at many train depots (1878-1965).
It is not a great movie so much as a major time capsule and cultural artifact of the early years of the U.S. entry into World War II, a not very bright time. Dorothy Ann Henderson's Jr. Hostess Identification Card for the Stage Door Canteen at the 44th Street Theatre in New York. Excellent.