Hollywood Canteen (1944)

HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN  (1944)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Delmer Daves
    Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, Joan Leslie,
    Bette Davis, John Garfield, Janis Paige
A G.I. wounded in the Pacific spends a few days in Hollywood before shipping out again and meets the girl of his dreams in actress Joan Leslie. The story's predictably thin, but it's enough to string together all kinds of musical numbers and movie-star cameos. Bette Davis and John Garfield, who set up and ran the real Hollywood Canteen, preside over the movie one, too, and most of the Warner Brothers contract players appear. Favorite bit: Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet slipping into character to intimidate a Marine sergeant who's been manhandling Patty Andrews on the dance floor.