Author Archive: Retro

A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed around the world. Transcriptions were made of each program and sent to American posts and camps around the world. This entry (Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 20) was broadcast and filmed at a live performace at Camp Roberts, California. Lana Turner, via a request from a group of soldiers, fried a steak, which was brought on stage accompanied by armed guards since this was a rationed and rare item during the war years. Betty Hutton sung “Murder, He Says” and Judy Garland did “Over the Rainbow”, and all three guest stars swapped quips and banter with emcee Bob Hope, with Hope usually on the butt-end of the jokes.

The Great Stars. A look at all the great stars of yesteryear. Hosted by Henry Fonda. Approx. 60 Minutes.

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Former actress and Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper takes us on a tour of Hollywood and interviews the stars of past and present.

A show producer demonstrates the talents of his cast at an auction to sell the show and the performers to the highest bidder.

Semi-documentary relates how Extra Girl #1472 on a C.B. DeMile Film, Suzanne Emery, reports to Central Casting one day for DeMille’s _The Crusades_. Among footage of the making of the film, she gets her chance for fleeting fame…

Silent movie producer J. Pierpoint Ginsburg has put off making his first talkie.