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To: hershey
How about the Oscar-winning "Best Years of Our Lives?" And for fans of Claudette Colbert, the sentimental chick flick, "Since You Went Away."
8 posted on 05/31/2004 7:26:12 AM PDT by Liberty Wins
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To: Liberty Wins

They will be in the Homefront thread to be posted later today.


9 posted on 05/31/2004 7:29:13 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: Liberty Wins

I love Claudette Colbert. One of my favorite WWII movies is "Three Came Home." Colbert played Agnes Keith, an American interned by the Japanese in Borneo.

One of her co-stars, Sessue Hayakawa, played a somewhat sympathetic Japanese colonel in charge of the internment camps. Hayakawa would later go on to play the Oscar-nominated role of Colonel Saito in "Bridge Over the River Kwai." Hayakawa was an excellent actor. The two Japanese colonel characters were distinct from each other.

Hayakawa lived in a chateau outside of Paris during the WWII German Occupation. He hid two Allied pilots in a shed basement until they could be smuggled out of France by the Resistance. He secretly hated the fascists and mourned Japan's Imperialism, which he predicted in the early 1930's would eventually lead to its ruin. Go here for a short bio of him: http://www.silentera.com/people/actors/Hayakawa-Sessue.html or here for more info on his life: http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Hayakawas/hayakawas.html

Many people don't realize that Sessue Hayakawa was once a very popular silent movie actor. In 1917, he played a Japanese Secret Service agent who helps the Americans defeat a German spy ring in a WWI movie entitled "The Secret Game." (Yes, the Japanese were our Allies in WWI!) You can purchase a really cool DVD from Amazon.com of this movie that also contains historical footage, documentaries and Hollywood's early patriotic efforts to garner public support in WWI. Go here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005TNF3/qid=1086016228/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5582558-4139058?v=glance&s=dvd


11 posted on 05/31/2004 8:24:36 AM PDT by demnomo
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To: Liberty Wins

Here is more info on "Three Came Home," starring Claudette Colbert. Go here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006AUGN/qid%3D1086017472/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-5582558-4139058#product-details


12 posted on 05/31/2004 8:33:36 AM PDT by demnomo
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