Cinema: Hollywood at War

Director George Stevens (The Talk of the Town) last week rhetorically answered a rhetorical question: "How can the movies best aid the war effort?" The discussion, in which Novelist Erskine Caldwell, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Walt Disney and others also joined plangent voices, was broadcast on the American Forum of the Air.

Said Director Stevens: "In these times the only actor that I would like to direct is Sessue Hayakawa. . . . Some of you old-time moviegoers remember him. . . . Well Sessue, if this gets to you in Tokyo . . ....

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