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| keywords: wwii hollywood, uso stage door canteen, pioneer caver floyd collins, well faller downer benny hooper |
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Synopsis: Hollywood Actors Support The War Effort, Pioneer Caver Floyd Collins Perishes In Cave Collapse, Rescue Attempt To Save 7 Year Old Benny Hooper Who Became Trapped In A Dry Well... (read more) |
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Information: 1959 BW 15 min |
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The role that some Hollywood actors and celebrities played in the war effort. Footage shows Tyrone Power and Clark Gable after they enlisted in the Army. Footage shows Marlene Dietrich, Deanna Durbin, and Linda Darnell as they danced and interacted with soldiers. Servicemen dance and are served food at a Stage Door Canteen, American Theatre Wing War Service. Variety headline reads "B'Way Moves To Trenches".
Footage featuring Martha Raye, Al Jolson, and comic Joe E. Brown performing his famous baseball routine.
Marine Corps recruitment short.
The unsuccessful rescue attempt concerned pioneer caver Floyd Collins who, in 1925, was buried alive by a collapsing cave. Host Dennis James interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Burke Miller on his attempt to rescue the trapped man.
The successful 1957 rescue of 7-year-old Benny Hooper from a dry well into which he fell.
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