Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Director Frank Borzage’s Stage Door Canteen is a gentle-handed piece of propaganda. It plays out rather like a scripted 1940s wartime reality. It’s less a film and more of a historical relic commemorating the eponymous Stage Door Canteen in New York City. Thus, any effort to give it som... Read full article

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Director Frank Borzage’s Stage Door Canteen is a gentle-handed piece of propaganda. It plays out rather like a scripted 1940s wartime reality. It’s less a film and more of a historical relic commemorating the eponymous Stage Door Canteen in New York City. Thus, any effort to give it som... Read full article

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Stage Door Canteen Directed by Frank Borzage Written by Delmer Daves 1943/USA Sol Lesser Productions First viewing/Netflix rental This is a review of the kind of acts that played, or might have played, at the Stage Door Canteen operated by the leading lights of the Broadway theater in New York ... Read full article

Musical Monday VETERAN’S DAY DOUBLE FEATURE: “Stage Door Canteen” (1943) and “Hollywood Canteen” (1944)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. In honor of Veteran’s Day, Comet Over Hol... Read full article