You really know how to "trigger" an (almost) 86-year-old... {:-)
The 1930's were packed with Hollywood's greatest female film stars... You would be hard pressed to find one that wasn't a fine actress, as well as beautiful...
Hollywood was an important patriotic media outlet during WWII... Hollywood actresses contributed greatly to the war effort... Lombard lost her life in that support... Hedy Lamarr was not only a leading morale-boosting pin-up for the troops, but she was the principal developer of electronic systems that finally allowed our subs and torpedo planes to actually start sinking German and Jap shipping...
IAC, rest assured that if WWIII (chicoms) starts, Hollywood will be nowhere to be found (Except, probably, in China supporting the chicoms)...
Although I am not young, I did not have the usual upbringing of my peers. My parents mostly avoided current series, and watched 50s reruns or old Hollywood movies.
My parents bought us memberships to the revival theater Vitaphone, and we saw many of the greatest films of the 30s, 40, and 50s on the silver screen as intended, in newly-restored prints.
I first saw Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, and other great films on screen, not on teevee.
While my friends were talking about Paul Newman and Gene Hackman, I was talking about William Powell and John Garfield.