The
Hollywood Canteen operated at 1451 Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, California between October 3 1942 and November 22 1945 (
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) as a club offering food, dancing and entertainment for servicemen, usually on their way overseas. Even though the majority of visitors were U.S servicemen, the Canteen was open to servicemen of
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as well as women in all branches of service. The serviceman's ticket for admission was his
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and everything at the Canteen was free of charge.
The driving forces behind its creation were
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and
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, along with Jules Stein, President of
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, who headed up the finance committee. Bette Davis devoted an enormous amount of time and energy to the project and served as its president. The various
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s and
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of the entertainment industry donated the labor and money for the building renovations. The Canteen was operated and staffed completely by volunteers from the entertainment industry. By the time the Canteen opened its doors, over 3000 stars, players, directors, producers, grips, dancers, musicians, singers, writers, technicians, wardrobe attendants, hair stylists, agents, stand-ins, publicists, secretaries, and allied craftsmen of radio and screen had registered as volunteers.
Glamorous stars volunteered to wait on tables,
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and
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. On September 15 1943 the one millionth guest walked through the door of the Hollywood Canteen. The lucky soldier, Sgt. Carl Bell, received a kiss from
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.
A Hall of Honor at the Hollywood Canteen had a wall of photos which honored the film actors who served in the military.
In 1944,
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about the Hollywood Canteen. At the time the Canteen closed its doors on Thanksgiving day 1945, it had been host to almost three million servicemen.
There are over 265 photographs of the Hollywood Canteen.
Current Canteen
The current canteen opened in a nearby location in 2001 after being closed for over 50 years. It is a private restaurant and night club which caters to current media personalities among others.
Canteen Volunteers
Some of the celebrities who donated their services at the Hollywood Canteen were:
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Bea Lillie was a comic actress. She was born as Beatrice Gladys Lillie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Following her marriage in 1920 to Sir Robert Peel, she was known in private life as Lady Peel.-Early career:...
- June Lockhart
June Lockhart is an American television and film actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s TV. She is best remembered as the mother on two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She is also remembered as Dr...
- Anita Loos
Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author. On pronouncing her name, "The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse...
- Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...
- Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...
- Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version...
- Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in episodic television fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes...
- Diana Lynn
Diana Lynn was an American actress.Born Dolores Marie Loehr in Los Angeles, California, Lynn was considered a child prodigy because of her exceptional abilities as a pianist at an early age, and by the age of 12 was playing with the Los Angeles Junior Symphony Orchestra.- Film career :Dolores...
- Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
- Irene Manning
For the One Life to Live character, see Irene Manning ClaytonIrene Manning was an actress/singer.She was born Inez Harvuot in Cincinnati, Ohio in a family of 5 siblings. Her family loved to go on outdoor picnics where the featured activity was group singing...
- Groucho Marx
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born...
- Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall , born Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall, was a popular English cinema and theatre actor....
- Victor Mature
-Early life:Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a German-speaking father from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Italy, Marcellus George Mature a cutler, and a Kentucky-born mother of Swiss-American heritage, Clara P. Ackley. An older brother, Marcellus Paul Mature, died at 11 in...
- Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day....
- Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
- Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English-born actor and photographer. He is known for beginning his long career as a child actor. His best known role is in the "Planet of the Apes" films and TV series from 1968-1974.-Early life and career:McDowall was born in Herne Hill,...
- Butterfly McQueen
Butterfly McQueen was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen appeared as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.-Early life:...
- Ray Milland
Ray Milland was a Welsh-American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ....
- Ann Miller
Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier, better known as Ann Miller was an American singer, dancer and actress.-Early life:...
- Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller , was an American jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
- Carmen Miranda
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha
GCIH, better known by the stage name Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer and actress popular in the 1940s and 1950s....
- Maria Montez
María Montez was a Dominican-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling...
- George Montgomery
George Montgomery was an American painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in western style film and television....
- Dennis Morgan
Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer.In 1945, he played the part of Jefferson Jones in the holiday classic Christmas in Connecticut opposite Barbara Stanwyck. He also starred in such films as God Is My Co-Pilot and the 1943 film version of The Desert Song...
- Ken Murray
Ken Murray was an American entertainer and author.-Early life and career:Murray was born Kenneth Doncourt in New York City to a family of vaudeville performers...
- The Nicholas Brothers
- Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:...
- Margaret O'Brien
Margaret O'Brien is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history....
- Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude...
- Donald O'Connor
Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule...
- Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen Paula O’Sullivan was an Irish actress who was considered Ireland's first film star.-Early life:O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, the daughter of Mary Lovatt and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in The Connaught Rangers who served in The Great War...
- Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon was an Indian-born British actress.She began her film career in British films, and a prominent role, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII , brought attention to her...
- Eleanor Parker
-Early life:Parker was born in Cedarville, Ohio. At an early age, her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio and she attended public schools. She is a graduate of Shaw High School. After high school, she was signed by Warner Brothers in 1941, at the age of 18...
- Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons was an American gossip columnist who had her own radio show which featured interviews with Hollywood celebrities.-Early life:...
- Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1990s...
- Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian motion picture actor, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "The girl with the curls," she was one of the first Canadian...
- Walter Pidgeon
Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States.-Early life:...
- Dick Powell
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.-Biography:...
- Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...
- Jane Powell
Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s.-Early years:...
- William Powell
William Horatio Powell was an American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical portrayals.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in fourteen films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...
- Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was a Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, and Federico Fellini's La strada...
- George Raft
George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
- Claude Rains
Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 47 years; he later held American citizenship. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them The Invisible Man, the corrupt senator in Mr...
- Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone, MC , was a South African–born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, and The Adventures of Robin Hood.- Early life :He was born Philip St...
- Martha Raye
Martha Raye was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television.-Early life:...
- Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...
- Donna Reed
Donna Reed was an American film and television actress.-Early life:Reed was born Donna Belle Mullenger on a farm near Denison, Iowa, the daughter of Hazel Jane and William Richard Mullenger. The eldest of five children, she was raised as a Methodist...
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was an American tap dancer and actor of stage and film.-Early years:Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia to Maxwell, a machine-shop worker, and Maria Robinson, a choir singer...
- Edward G. Robinson
Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an American actor born in Romania...
- Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers was an American film and stage actress, dancer and singer.During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre...
- Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show...
- Cesar Romero
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was a Cuban American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of The Joker in the 1960s television series Batman...
- Mickey Rooney
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- Jane Russell
Jane Russell is an American film actress.-Early life:Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota, she was the only daughter of Roy William Russell and Geraldine Jacobi...
- Rosalind Russell
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- Ann Rutherford
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- S.Z. Sakall
Szőke Szakáll , known as S.Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian-Jewish film character actor. He was in many films including In the Good Old Summertime, Lullaby of Broadway, Christmas in Connecticut and Casablanca in which he played Carl, the head waiter.Chubby-jowled Sakall played numerous supporting roles...
- Ann Savage
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- Randolph Scott
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- Toni Seven
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- Norma Shearer
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- Ann Sheridan
-Life and career:Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film...
- Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s....
- Sylvia Sidney
-Early life:Sidney, born Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, New York, was the daughter of Rebecca , a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman. Her parents divorced by 1915 and she was adopted by her stepfather, Sigmund Sidney, a dentist...
- Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S...
- Ginny Simms
Ginny Simms , was a big band singer and film actress .She appeared in 11 movies from 1939 to 1951, when she retired...
- Frank Sinatra
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- Red Skelton
Red Skelton , born Richard Bernard Skelton, was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971...
- Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith was a Canadian-born stage, film and television actress.-Career:Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Smith was raised in Los Angeles. She was signed to a contract by Warner Bros. after being discovered by a talent scout while attending college...
- Kate Smith
Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"...
- Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern was an American film and television actress with a career spanning six decades.-Early life and career:...
- Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
- Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
- Craig Stevens
Craig Stevens was an American motion picture and television actor.-Biography:Born Gail Shikles, Jr. in Liberty, Missouri, he studied dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1936...
- Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony...
- Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple , known for most of her adult life by her married name, Shirley Temple Black, is an actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an American child actress of the 1930s...
- Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy, or The Danny Thomas Show. He is also the founder of St...
- Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven...
- Martha Tilton
Martha Tilton was an American popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. She was sometimes introduced as The Liltin' Miss Tilton.Tilton and her family lived in Texas and Kansas, relocating to Los Angeles when she was seven years old...
- Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor was an American actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers...
- Lana Turner
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- Spencer Tracy
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- Gloria Vanderbilt
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- Beryl Wallace
Beryl Wallace was an American singer, dancer and actress.Born Beryl Heischuber in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, she was the eldest of nine children of working class Jewish immigrants from Austria...
- Nancy Walker
Nancy Walker was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.-Career:Born Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1922 , she held a life-long feeling of abandonment by her mother, who died while she was an infant...
- John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison , born Marion Robert Morrison, better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height...
- Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb was an American actor, dancer and singer.-Early life:Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in a rural part of Marion County, Indiana, which would, in 1906, become Beech Grove, a self-governing city entirely surrounded by Indianapolis. As a result, virtually all printed sources give...
- Orson Welles
George Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years...
- Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman was an American bandleader and orchestral director.Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and he was dubbed the "King of Jazz." In 1924, Whiteman commissioned and debuted George Gershwin's...
- Chill Wills
Chill Theodore Wills was an American film actor and singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet.- Biography :...
- Marie Wilson
Katherine Elisabeth Wilson , better known by her stage name, Marie Wilson, was an Academy Award-nominated American radio, film, and television actress.-Career:...
- Jane Withers
Jane Withers is an American actress best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s.Withers began her career as a child...
- Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star...
- Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman was an American character actress of stage, film and television. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades...
- Rudy Vallee
Rudy Vallée was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.-Early life:Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée...
- Lupe Velez
Lupe Vélez was a Mexican American film actress.Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924...
- Loretta Young
-Early life:She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young, of Luxembourgian descent.At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she was three years old. Loretta and her sisters Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young worked as child actresses,...
- Vera Zorina
Vera Zorina was a ballerina, musical theatre actress and choreographer in both Europe and the United States....
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