Imagine an actress being that patriotic today.
I appears she worked for the OSS propaganda machine. I don’t know if that was technically a spy, but I suppose so.
What I do know, based on documentaries, that the Brits used women as actual covert spies. It was a simple idea, that no one would believe a woman could actually be a spy. Yet they were so effective.
I personally know a person that was a covert spy. By looking at him, his background, what he looked like when active, one would never believe it. He simply does not look like the Hollywood stereotype everyone expects.
Many of these people are referred to as “Secret Squirrels”.
I can see some actresses being patriotic today, but something we see from some of the actresses of the distant generations of WWII is how complex their involvement is, those generations were deeper people.
This story and stories like Hedy Lamarr, Audrey Hepburn, and others reveal the depth of life in the past.
We saw some serious patriotism from celebrity women during the Vietnam War.