Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302120578
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6302120578
Label: MGM (Warner)
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 124
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-12-15

Customer Rating:
Summary: Joan's first movie for Warners
Comment: Remember when Hollywood used to care about our boys fighting overseas?

Remember when a Star would gladly pose for a picture with a fan?

Remember when a Star would sign as many autographs as possible?

Remember the good' ole days. That's what "Hollywood Canteen" is about.

"Hollywood Canteen" is a star-studded blockbuster from the 1940's. It revolves around two fictional characters that are on leave in Hollywood. What's there to do in the meantime? Well, go to the "Hollywood Canteen," of course!

Many of Hollywood's biggest starts of the 40's work at the "Hollywood Canteen." They entertain and serve the service boys.

This was Joan Crawford's first picture with Warners after her 18 year tenure with MGM abruptly ended. But, Joanie doesn't have a big part in this picture. In fact, none of the other big names have a huge part. The biggest part, would probably be Ms. Bette Davis'. Bette (the founder of the original "Hollywood Canteen",) was the biggest silver screen star at the time and she wanted everyone to know it (especially Ms. Crawford.)

Love this movie for what it is: PURE ENTERTAINMENT. And, maybe after you enter the "Hollywood Canteen" you'll forget about all your troubles and you'll be taken back to a time when people cared more...

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A PIECE OF AMERICANA
Comment: SOME HERE MISS THE POINT OF THIS FILM. THIS WAS GREAT IN THAT THIS MOVIE PROJECTED THE AMERICA MOST WANTED TO BELIEVE THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR AT THE TIME. AN AMERICA OF EQUALS WHERE THE STARS WERE ALL REALLY JUST TRUE BLUE AMERICANS JUST LIKE US, AND IN THIS NATION THE PRETTY MOVIE STAR WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH THE MODEST G.I.! I HOPE THIS FILM WILL COME OUT IN DVD!

FRANK
(A HISTORY TEACHER)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN
Comment: Having been fortunate to have been SERVED at "THE" canteen I have found this to be a true story of the canteen. True Robert Hutton's romance with Joan Leslie was not a fact, however, it gave us guys a sense of enjoying our many fantasies. This film was very entertaining, in my eyes, and I'm certain many of us who were fortunate the have visited the Hollywood canteen feel much the same. I was in Hollywood recently and went to the site. It doesn't look the same but I imagined I was standing in line to enter.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN
Comment: Not the greatest film ever made by far BUT it does have an all star(mostly cameos)cast headed by BETTE DAVIS which makes it more than worth seeing.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Lame, Lame, Lame
Comment: Lame is the first word that came to mind as I was watching this all-star World War II morale booster. I really wanted to like it a lot more than I did, but the plot's framing device killed it for me. Robert Hutton plays a soldier on leave who visits the Hollywood Canteen with one hope ... to get a kiss from Joan Leslie, that All-American girl next door. He does, and a phony romance develops between them that pretty much ruins the film. It's oh-so-sweet and innocent and trite. Fortunately, there are some good moments that don't feature the wholesome couple. The film is populated by the best talent at Warner Brothers, mostly playing themselves. Dane Clark doesn't play Dane Clark, but instead Hutton's army buddy, and he supplies the film's humour as he tries to win over Ida Lupino, Alexis Smith, Joan Crawford, and Janis Paige. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre have a short but terrific scene together where they use their sinister screen personas to great effect. There are some good musical numbers performed, along with other appearances by such classic stars as Jane Wyman, Barbara Stanwyck, Jack Carson, Dennis Morgan, Joe E. Brown, and the Hollywood Canteen's founders, Bette Davis and John Garfield. So although I did enjoy seeing so many great actors from yesteryear out of character for a change, I just wish that screenwriter and director Delmer Daves had come up with a better framing device to move the film along. Sixty years later it doesn't stand up very well, and I can't imagine that audiences back then really bought into it either.

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