More of that AMAZING place!

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Well, aside from those in uniform, there were hundreds of volunteers- Hollywood elite, and regular Joe's and Jills dressed in their best dancing clothes or manning the food lines- not always in what you would think!


A Hall of Honor at the Hollywood Canteen had a wall of photos which honored the film actors who served in the military.

Ooh yeah-- that's Rita Hayworth!

In 1944, Warner Bros. made a star-studded film about the Hollywood Canteen. At the time the Canteen closed its doors, it had been host to almost three million servicemen.


Some of the celebrities who donated their services at the Hollywood Canteen were:

* Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
* June Allyson
* Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
* The Andrews Sisters
* Dana Andrews

* Eve Arden
* Louis Armstrong
* Fred Astaire
* Lauren Bacall
* Lucille Ball
* Tallulah Bankhead
* Lynn Bari
* Diana Barrymore
* Lionel Barrymore
* Anne Baxter
* Wallace Beery
* William Bendix
* Joan Bennett

* Jack Benny
* Edgar Bergen
* Mel Blanc
* Ann Blyth
* Humphrey Bogart
* Ray Bolger
* Beulah Bondi
* Walter Brennan
* Fanny Brice
* Joe E. Brown
* George Burns & Gracie Allen
* James Cagney

* Cab Calloway
* Rod Cameron
* Eddie Cantor
* Judy Canova
* Kitty Carlisle
* Jack Carson
* Marguerite Chapman
* Charles Coburn
* Claudette Colbert
* Jerry Colonna

* Ronald Colman
* Perry Como
* Gary Cooper
* Jackie Cooper
* Bing Crosby
* Joan Crawford
* George Cukor
* Robert Cummings
* Xavier Cugat
* Cass Daley
* Dorothy Dandridge
* Linda Darnell
* Bette Davis
* Yvonne De Carlo
* William Demarest



* Olivia de Havilland
* Marlene Dietrich
* Jimmy Dorsey
* Tommy Dorsey
* Irene Dunne
* Jimmy Durante
* Deanna Durbin
* Nelson Eddy
* Faye Emerson
* Dale Evans
* Jinx Falkenburg
* Alice Faye

* Gracie Fields
* Errol Flynn
* Kay Francis
* Joan Fontaine
* Glenn Ford
* Eva Gabor
* Ava Gardner
* Judy Garland
* Greer Garson
* Betty Grable
* Cary Grant
* Kathryn Grayson
* Sydney Greenstreet
* Paulette Goddard
* Benny Goodman
* Jack Haley
* Phil Harris
* Moss Hart
* Dick Haymes
* Susan Hayward
* Rita Hayworth
* Paul Henreid

* Katharine Hepburn
* Bob Hope
* Hedda Hopper
* Lena Horne
* Edward Everett Horton
* Ruth Hussey
* Betty Hutton
* Harry James
* Gloria Jean
* Van Johnson
* Al Jolson
* Jennifer Jones
* Danny Kaye
* Buster Keaton
* Ruby Keeler
* Gene Kelly
* Evelyn Keyes
* Andrea King
* Kay Kyser




* Alan Ladd
* Bert Lahr
* Angela Lansbury
* Veronica Lake
* Hedy Lamarr
* Dorothy Lamour
* Carole Landis
* Frances Langford
* Pinky Lee
* Mervyn LeRoy
* Vivien Leigh
* Joan Leslie
* Ted Lewis
* Beatrice Lillie


* June Lockhart
* Anita Loos
* Peter Lorre
* Myrna Loy
* Bela Lugosi
* Ida Lupino
* Diana Lynn
* Jeanette MacDonald
* Irene Manning
* Groucho Marx
* Herbert Marshall
* Victor Mature
* Elsa Maxwell
* Hattie McDaniel
* Roddy McDowall
* Butterfly McQueen
* Ray Milland

* Ann Miller
* Glenn Miller
* Carmen Miranda
* Maria Montez
* George Montgomery
* Dennis Morgan
* Ken Murray
* The Nicholas Brothers
* Jack Oakie
* Margaret O'Brien
* Maureen O'Hara
* Donald O'Connor
* Maureen O'Sullivan
* Merle Oberon

* Eleanor Parker
* Louella Parsons
* Gregory Peck
* Mary Pickford
* Walter Pidgeon
* Dick Powell
* Eleanor Powell
* Jane Powell
* William Powell

* Anthony Quinn
* George Raft
* Claude Rains



* Basil Rathbone
* Martha Raye
* Ronald Reagan
* Donna Reed
* Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
* Edward G. Robinson
* Ginger Rogers
* Roy Rogers
* Cesar Romero
* Mickey Rooney
* Jane Russell
* Rosalind Russell
* Ann Rutherford
* S.Z. Sakall
* Ann Savage
* Randolph Scott


* Toni Seven
* Norma Shearer
* Ann Sheridan
* Dinah Shore
* Sylvia Sidney
* Phil Silvers
* Ginny Simms
* Frank Sinatra
* Red Skelton
* Alexis Smith
* Kate Smith
* Ann Sothern
* Jo Stafford
* Barbara Stanwyck
* Craig Stevens
* Leopold Stokowski
* Shirley Temple
* Danny Thomas
* Gene Tierney
* Martha Tilton

* Claire Trevor
* Lana Turner
* Spencer Tracy
* Gloria Vanderbilt
* Beryl Wallace
* Nancy Walker
* John Wayne
* Clifton Webb
* Orson Welles
* Paul Whiteman
* Chill Wills
* Marie Wilson
* Jane Withers
* Anna May Wong

* Jane Wyman
* Rudy Vallee
* Lupe Velez
* Loretta Young
* Vera Zorina

Bette Davis hosts a 26th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Red Army. The sailors are from a Russian ship anchored in Los Angeles Harbor.

HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN VOLUNTEER'S ARM BAND AND ID CARD

The movie premier of the real life story