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May 26, 2024 · Mel Blanc (born May 30, 1908, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died July 10, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was an entertainer renowned as America’s greatest voice-over artist who created more than 400 unique voices for popular radio, television, movie, and cartoon characters. Blanc was interested in music at an early age and became ...
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Blanc, Mel (1908-1989) Mel Blanc, the "Man of a thousand voices," helped to develop animated cartoons into a new comedic art form by creating and performing the voices of hundreds of characters for cartoons, radio, and television. Melvin Jerome Blanc was born on May 30, 1908 in San Francisco, California, to Frederick and Eva Blank, managers of ...
Sep 23, 2021 · The atrocities committed by the Japanese military during WWII are so brutal that it is almost impossible to comprehend them. In some ways, it may be better to forget this terrible history, yet to do so would dishonor those who suffered and perished. A look at the worst of Japan's crimes in WW2...
- Mel Judson
- Uso Clubs Were Everywhere.
- Pugilists Welcome.
- Smokes, But Not Booze.
- Celebrity Waiters.
- The Woman in charge.
- No Slacks allowed.
- Things Junior Hostesses Were Forbidden from doing.
- Mobile Usos Aren’T A New thing.
- $33 Million.
- Uso Tours in WW2 Were Dangerous.
Several estimates put the number at roughly 3,000 USO clubs worldwide during World War II. Some were run out of established or newly constructed buildings. Others were run out of homes, barns, museums, railroad sleeping cars and churches. Today, the USO has about 160 locations worldwide.
Some USO locations had boxing rings and punching bags, as the sport was far more popular than it is today.
USO snack bars sold cigarettes to troops, but didn’t sell liquor. Today, alcohol and tobacco are forbidden, but all snacks at USO locations are free to troopsand their families.
Stars of the stage and screen weren’t just entertainers back in the 1940s. They’d also bring you coffee and a donut. At New York City’s famed USO Stage Door Canteen, troops could meet the stars of the day, watch them perform and even be waited on by them. At the USO Hollywood Canteen, some stars worked shifts in the anonymity of the kitchen.
In keeping with the era’s gender roles, many USO clubs had the position of senior hostess. An esteemed woman from the local community, the senior hostess coordinated the junior hostesses and large-scale activities at USO clubs.
Junior hostesses were arguably the most famous feature of stateside USOs during the World War II era. These young women catered to and danced with troops, among other upkeep duties. They also had a fairly formal dress code—no slacks allowed—compared to today’s volunteers.
Smoking inside most USO areas, drinking alcohol on the job, dancing with other women when troops were present, refusing to dance with a service man unless he was being “ungentlemanly” and dancing “conspicuously.”
Mobile USOsstarted circulating in the lower 48 states in 1942. They consisted of trucks with generators, screens and projectors to show film reels and many were equipped with a public address system, turntables and records, sports gear, board games, books and snacks. And because no World War II USO experience was complete without a dance, the local...
That’s roughly how much money was raised by the USO from its inception in 1941 through the end of World War II in 1945. Thomas Dewey and Prescott Bush spearheaded the fundraising campaign. Factoring in inflation, that’s the equivalent of $433.7 million today.
Thirty-seven USO entertainers died during World War II. The most famous entertainer who didn’t make it back was legendary big band leader and then-Army Major Glenn Miller, whose plane disappeared over the English Channel on the way to France.
World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
Jan 5, 2022 · Mel Brooks has always loved musical moments, and recounts a most unusual one he had during World War II. When the musical version of The Producers first began previews on Broadway in 2001, an ...
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