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{Photos} We Salute Hollywood at War!
This photo spread appeared in Modern Screen magazine in 1942. We Salute Hollywood at War! In H’wood, morale isn’t just a pretty face. It’s laughs for the homesick–blood for the wounded–millions for guns! Clark Gable, anxious to shake off old ties, get into the Big Scrap, took 11 months of stiff training and blisters to earn his gold Lieut.’s bars. Jim Cagney succeeded him as Chairman of the actors’ division of the H’wood Victory Comm. And believe us, nobody has to ask what Hollywood is doing in this war! To date, its War Bond sales amount to $838,250,000! Among the things that…
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{Hollywood} Sony Pictures (formerly MGM)
I approached this tour rather apprehensively. Metro Goldwyn Mayer is, sadly, no more. The largest studio, the most prestigious studio, the studio that had “more stars than there are in the heavens”, Clark’s home studio for over 20 years, is gone. By the 1970’s, its glory days were nothing but a memory. The MGM name is nothing but really a name anymore, not a place. The former studio is now Sony Pictures and Sony owns Columbia and is much more proud of that than of MGM history. I won’t get into the long, sad story of MGM’s decline here but I highly recommend this book that came out last year,…