Hollywood Actors Gone to World War Two |Actor and Crew Shortage During WW2 Hollywood
1943, Collier's Magazine, Hollywood

Hollywood Feels the Actor Shortages
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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“What Hollywood is saying secretly and can’t say publicly is: The Armed Forces are taking away all our actors, all our technical men. Things are serious now; in six months they will be desperate. But if anybody in Hollywood got up and said that unless a great change in public policy is made, the movies might be out of business in six months…”


“[Movie stars have] a duty and Hollywood has a duty and they should be made to stick to it.”