Wartime Movie Stars

[davep]

Here are nine of the most popular women movie stars during World War II. Some you problem know and some you don't. But one thing is for sure every GI knew all of them. How many can you indentify?

Don't post the answers - i.e. don't spoil it for those working on them


Here are the names, try to match them up, or research and learn.
Hedy Lamarr - Lana Turner - Ann Sheridan - Veronica Lake - Gene Tierney
Maria Montez - Rita Hayworth- Dorothy Lamour - Betty Grable

[davep]

To help you remember and notice each star here is the first highlight. Remember these stars were real to the American GI, not just some picture from 60 years ago. Learn and appreciate what was an important part of a GI's life.

Gene Tierney
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Tierney


Some great movie footage from 1941 - Belle Star (2 minutes into the video)

[davep]

Hedy Lamar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heady_Lamar
From her movie "The Conspirators" (1941)

[davep]

Which one of the actresses was a communications expert?

She work with another person on devising a system for making it difficult for someone to detect radio guided torpedoes. It was so novel, that she had a patent filed on it.

Their patent discovery serves as the basis for all spectrum communications, such as WiFi and cordless phones.

[jdfinney]

Which one of the actresses was a communications expert?

She work with another person on devising a system for making it difficult for someone to detect radio guided torpedoes. It was so novel, that she had a patent filed on it.

Their patent discovery serves as the basis for all spectrum communications, such as WiFi and cordless phones.

[kanowarrior]

Hedy Lamarr was an amazing person. A genius by all definations of the word, but because she was stuck in a beautiful body she rarely got credit for mental abilities of any kind. As loyal as they came yet if I remember right born a German citizen.

[davep]

I was talking with my mon and Dad(ww2 vet) and they told me about her mathematics background. I was surprised, and then did the research. I also found out the the "patent" was not renewed by her heirs, if so they would have been billionaires. There discovery was ahead of it time.

[barcelonablom]

Aug 26, 2010 17:03:04 GMT -5 davep said:

I also found out the the "patent" was not renewed by her heirs, if so they would have been billionaires. There discovery was ahead of it time.

It certainly was... it took until the 50's to adapt it for its new purpose. Like most science endeavors, someone lays the groundwork and another takes the idea and runs.

I'm sure we all know that Audrey Hepburn was involved with the Dutch Resistance?

[jdfinney]

Yup, she was also a field nurse at Arnhem, later in life, she worked on a picture with one of the same paratroopers she tended to back in 44, Terence Young, director of "Wait Until Dark.

Jeff

[davep]

Veronica Lake

[jdfinney]

Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich are two of my favorites from the era, they also had a long term on and off again romance, fairly open about it too. Both were very popular even in those more conservative times. Both merried famous hollywood men in what was known back then as "lavender marriages."

I've read that Veronica Lake was a very strange and difficult person to work with or even get along with period, a very heavy drinker, it's now believed that she was bipolor before anybody even knew what that was. I've read two books on her, a very tragic sad life. That said, she's in three of my favorite Alan Ladd movies from th war years, "This Gun for Hire, "The Glass Key", and "The Blue Dalhia." Classic Film Noir at it's best.

Jeff

[davep]

Ann Sheridan - She's Movie Star #8

[davep]

#7 - Rita Hayworth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Hayworth

[davep]

Lana Turner - Movie Star #5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner

[davep]

Movie Star #9 - Betty Crable
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Grable

[bthodgson]

I was going through old family pictures and such and found a headshot of Greer Garson autographed personally to my grandma. My grandmother was a dancer and worked frequently on Broadway and worked with many many actors and actresses of the time. Anyways, just thought it was cool to find an autographed headshot in my family's stuff. I will scan the pic onto here when I get a chance

[davep]

Interesting . . . please post the scan

Here is Greer Garson

[davep]

Here is the autograph photo by Greer Garson to Brett's Grandmother

[bthodgson]

Thanks for posting this, Dave, I appreciate it. Well, there's the photo to my gma

[davep]

Here is another picture of Greer Garson