Director
Delmer Daves
Actors
The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Dane Clark, Joan Crawford, Helmut Dantine, Bette Davis, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Paul Henreid, Robert Hutton, Andrea King, Joan Leslie, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Irene Manning, Nora Martin, Joan McCracken, Dolores Moran, Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Eleanor Parker, William Prince, Joyce Reynolds, John Ridgely, Roy Rogers, Trigger, S.Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Craig Stevens, Joseph Szigeti, Donald Woods, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Carmen Cavallaro and His Orchestra, The Golden Gate Quartette, Rosario, Antonio, Sons of the Pioneers, Anne G. Sterling
Runtime
2 h 04 min
Release Date
31 December 1944
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Overview
Dozens of Warner Brothers stars come together in this 1940s musical/comedy
Bette Davis John GarfieldThe Hollywood Canteen was a club for GIs where Joan Crawford might over- easy you some eggs and John Garfield might scrub out the frying pan, where Hollywood stars gave some of their spare time cooking, waiting on and entertaining the GIs.
The film Hollywood Canteen is a salute to the canteen, which includes in the cast the driving forces behind its creation, Bette Davis and John Garfield, who along with Jules Stein (who is not in the movie) the President of Music Corporation of America, who headed up the finance committee.
The movie is  built around a storyline of a GI who wins a date with Joan Leslie. It’s part drama; part musical; part variety show with 40 plus stars including: Jack Benny, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Roy Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Dorsey, Ida Lupino, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Dennis Morgan, Joan Lesley, Joe E Brown any many many more.
Special Features:
includes: a trailer for “The Doughgirls;” a newsreel; “I Am an American,” which traces the proud heritage of a family; “Proudly We Serve,” in which an aerial gunner gets trained by a female marine instructor; “Report from the Front,” a plea from Humphrey Bogart to donate to the Red Cross.
also three cartoons:
  • Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in “Stage Door Cartoon.”
  • Bugs Bunny takes on “Fatso” Hermann Goering in “Herr Meets Hare”
  • “Hollywood Canine Canteen”  movie stars are dogs, and that’s as far as the joke goes. Not too good.
We watched the movie and all the special features Aug 16 2015