Format Details:
Release Date: 15 June 2015
Label: Wienerworld
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760137712893
Genres: Soundtrack  Music Documentary  
Format Details:
Release Date: 15 June 2015
Label: Wienerworld
Packaging Type: DVD Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760137712893
Genres: Soundtrack  Music Documentary  
Description
World War II affected everyone, and everyone found his or her own way of helping the cause. For American entertainers, choices included enlisting, selling war bonds, visiting the wounded, and entertaining the troops.
In this 90-minute documentary, filmmaker Robert Mugge pays tribute to hundreds of well-known (and not so well-known) performers who assisted the military both at home and abroad.
Included are rare period performances by the likes of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Frances Langford, the Andrews Sisters, Abbott and Costello, Lena Horne, Carole Landis, Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Danny Kaye, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Larry Adler, Kay Kaiser, Cass Daley, Irving Berlin, Bugs Bunny and many others, as well as special appearances by such prominent actors as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard (in the last appearance before her untimely death) and Edward G. Robinson.
Rounding out this tribute are 1987 interviews with Dorothy Lamour ("the Bond Bombshell"), Frances Langford ("the G.I. Sweetheart"), Mel Blanc (the voice of World War II's Private Snafu, alias the Sad Sack), and Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, as well as a reunion of Bob Hope's World War II troupe of performers (videotaped just three days before Hope's 85th birthday).
"Entertaining the Troops scores not only as vividly told history, but also as entertainment unto itself. As technically proficient as a good feature film, it's a stirring look at Hope in his heyday, and a reminder that he was the consummate entertainer."  – Andy Wickstrom, Philadelphia Inquirer
SONGS:
It's Been A Long, Long Time
Any Bonds Today
Don't Fence Me In
Thanks for the Memory
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The Fifth Army's Where My Heart Is
The Man I Love
You Made Me Love You
I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
Embraceable You
Melody in Four F
Night and Day
Tea For Two
I'm in the Mood for Love
If I Had My Way
I'll Be Seeing You
They're Either Too Young or Too Old
I'm the Secretary to the Sultan
Life's Full Of Consequence
Tracklisting
The Flamin Groovies
The Blasters
Johnny Thunders
Great White
Todd Rundgren
Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo
999
Various Artists
Various Artists
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins & Dorothy Lamour
Bob Hope