[VOA]

Jimmy Stewart led B-24 bombing raids over Germany.

When the younguns talk about war/patriotism, I tell them about Stewart putting
on weight so the military would take him.
In other words, he gained weight and put his very successful movie
career on hold in order to take his chances of getting killed by a German bullet or flak.

[cgk]

Pinging Michelle's list...

[ZULU]

I believe the reason Hollywood produced anti-Axis Movies had nothing to do with patriotism and everything to do with Communism.


Before Hitler double-crossed his ally Joe Stalin, leftists in America like Bella Abzug were isolationists and opposed any actions by the U.S. to support Hitler's enemies. Since Hitler was Stalin's ally, they clandestinely supported Hitler, or at least didn't want to oppose him.

Once Hitler double-crossed the murdering Georgian, everything changed and all American leftists and communists wanted the U.S. to attack Hitler. This was reflected in the movies that Hollywood produced. The leftist in Hollywood were never really supporing America, they were supporting a war effort which benefitted their buddy and idol Joe Stalin.

Even after the war ended, Hollywood continued to focus on NAZIs and Japanese as villains and never really targeted the Soviets as they supported them and wanted to continue to use Axis charactures to demonize right wingers in the public eye. They conveniently ignored the fact that the NAZIs were actually state socialists and the overwhelming number of American right-wingers were patriotic Americans and had no connection with NAZIs or racism. But then, truth never got in the way of good propaganda to a leftist and still doesn't.

[Poohbah]

In February 1941, the entertainment industry convened an extraordinary Academy Awards ceremony. The president of the Motion Picture Association, independent movie mogul and World War I pilot and intelligence officer Walter Wanger, went out of his way to use the Academy Award ceremony to support the war effort.

We weren't at war until December, 1941...

Perhaps Ms. Malkin means February, 1942.