Anita Page and Buster Keaton were costars at MGM, but the situation was not without it's problems.

Anita Page

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Anita Page
in 1930
Born	Anita Evelyn Pomares (1910-08-04)August 4, 1910 Flushing, Queens, New York, USA
Died	September 6, 2008(2008-09-06) (aged 98) Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1925–1936; 2000–2008
Spouse(s)	Nacio Herb Brown (m. 1934; div. 1935) Herschel A. House (m. 1937; died 1991)
Children	2

Anita Page (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008) was a Salvadoran-American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era.^[1]
Page became a highly popular young star, reportedly receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin"^[2] and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s.^[3] She retired from acting in 1936. Page married her second husband the following year with whom she had two children.
Page returned to acting in 1996, and appeared in four films in the 2000s. She died in September 2008 at the age of 98.

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Retirement
  • 2.2 Return to acting
• 3 Death
• 4 Filmography
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life

She was born Anita Evelyn Pomares to Marino, Sr. and Maude (née Mullane) Pomares.^[4] She had one brother, Marino Jr., who later worked for her as a gym instructor while her mother worked as her secretary and her father as her chauffeur.^[5] Of Salvadoran ancestry, Page's grandfather was a consul from El Salvador.^[1][6]

Career

Page entered films with the help of friend, actress Betty Bronson. A photo of Page was spotted by a man who handled Bronson's fan mail who was also interested in representing actors. With the encouragement of her mother, Page telephoned the man who arranged a meeting for her with a casting director at Paramount Studios. After screentesting for Paramount, Page also tested for MGM. After being offered a contract for both studios, Page decided on MGM.^[7] Page's first film for MGM was the 1928 comedy-drama Telling the World, opposite William Haines. Her performances in her second MGM film, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) opposite Joan Crawford (with whom she appeared in three films), and The Broadway Melody (1929) opposite Bessie Love were her greatest successes of the period, and her popularity allowed her to make a smooth transition into talking pictures.
She was the leading lady to Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable (among others) and during the early 1930s, she was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses. She was involved briefly with Gable romantically during that time. At the height of her popularity, she was receiving more fan mail than any other female star, with the exception of Greta Garbo, and received multiple marriage proposals from Benito Mussolini in the mail.^[5]

Retirement

When her contract expired in 1933, she surprised Hollywood by announcing her retirement at the age of 23. She made one more movie, Hitch Hike to Heaven, in 1936, and then left the screen, virtually disappearing from Hollywood circles for sixty years. In a 2004 interview with author Scott Feinberg, she claimed that her refusal to meet demands for sexual favors by MGM head of production Irving Thalberg, supported by studio chief Louis B. Mayer, is what truly ended her career. She said that Mayer colluded with the other studio bosses to ban her and other uncooperative actresses from finding work.
She married composer Nacio Herb Brown in 1934, but the marriage was annulled a year later because Brown's previous divorce had not been finalized at the time they were married.^[8] She married Lieutenant Hershel A. House, a Navy pilot, in 1937 and they moved to Coronado, California and lived there until his death in 1991. They had two daughters, Linda^[9] (now Linda Sterne)^[10] and Sandra (who predeceased Page).

Return to acting

Page returned to the screen in 1996 after sixty years retirement and appeared in several low budget horror films. Film veteran Margaret O'Brien appeared in two of them. During this period, she moved in with her co-star and occasional director, Randal Malone at his Van Nuys home.
Page relished her status as "last star of the silents" and frequently gave interviews and appeared in documentaries about the era. Ill health prevented her from making public appearances in her final years.

Death

Page died on September 6, 2008 at her Los Angeles home, at the age of 98.^[11] She is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in San Diego.
At the time of her death in September 2008, she was among the last to have acted as an adult in silent films (Barbara Kent and Miriam Seegar are among the handful of others) to live into the 21st century. She was also the last living attendee of the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Anita Page has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1925	A Kiss for Cinderella		Uncredited
1926	Love 'Em and Leave 'Em		Uncredited
1927	Beach Nuts		Short film
1928	Telling the World	Chrystal Malone
1928	Our Dancing Daughters	Ann 'Annikins'
1928	While the City Sleeps	Myrtle
1928	West of Zanzibar	Bit role	Uncredited
1929	The Flying Fleet	Anita Hastings
1929	The Broadway Melody	Queenie Mahoney	Alternative title: The Broadway Melody of 1929
1929	Our Modern Maidens	Kentucky Strafford
1929	Speedway	Patricia
1929	Navy Blues	Alice "Allie" Brown
1930	Great Day		Incomplete
1930	Free and Easy	Elvira Plunkett	Alternative title: Easy Go
1930	Caught Short	Genevieve Jones
1930	Our Blushing Brides	Connie Blair
1930	Little Accident	Isabel
1930	War Nurse	Joy Meadows
1931	The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (Second Series)
1931	Reducing	Vivian Truffle
1931	The Easiest Way	Peg Murdock Feliki
1931	Gentleman's Fate	Ruth Corrigan
1931	Sidewalks of New York	Margie Kelly
1931	Under 18	Sophie
1932	Are You Listening?	Sally O'Neil
1932	Night Court	Mary Thomas	Alternative title: Justice for Sale
1932	Skyscraper Souls	Jenny LeGrande
1932	Prosperity	Helen Praskins Warren
1933	Jungle Bride	Doris Evans
1933	Soldiers of the Storm	Natalie
1933	The Big Cage	Lilian Langley
1933	I Have Lived	Jean St. Clair	Alternative titles: After Midnight Love Life
1936	Hitch Hike to Heaven	Claudia Revelle	Alternative title: Footlights and Shadows
1961	The Runaway	Nun
1996	Sunset After Dark
2000	Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood	Sister Seraphina	Direct-to-DVD release
2002	The Crawling Brain	Grandma Anita Kroger	Direct-to-DVD release
2004	Socialite	Socialite
2009	Frankenstein Rising	Elizabeth Frankenstein	Released posthumously

Villecco, Tony; Silent Stars Speak. McFarland 2001 p 132 ISBN 0-7864-0814-6

References

1. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Anita Page: Star of the silent screen. Independent.co.uk (September 8, 2008). Retrieved on May 10, 2012.
2. Jump up ^ Latinas in the United States. Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved on May 10, 2012.
3. Jump up ^ Anita Page, 98; Hollywood Star at End of Silent Movie Era. Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved on May 10, 2012.
4. Jump up ^ Ankerich, Michael G. (1998). The Sound Of Silence: Conversations With 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies. McFarland. p. 181. ISBN 0-786-40504-X. 
5. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} Ronald, Bergan (September 8, 2008). "Anita Page: Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved June 28, 2009. 
6. Jump up ^ Golden, Eve (2001). Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars. McFarland. p. 130. ISBN 0-7864-0834-0. 
7. Jump up ^ Golden, Eve (2001). Golden Images: 41 Essays on Silent Film Stars. McFarland. pp. 130–131. ISBN 0-7864-0834-0. 
8. Jump up ^ Alternate Film Guide: Anita Page: Anita Page: Q&A with Author Allan Ellenberger. Altfg.com (August 22, 2007). Retrieved on May 10, 2012.
9. Jump up ^ KansasCity.com: Silent screen siren Anita Page dies at 98^{[dead link]}
10. Jump up ^ Silent screen siren Anita Page dies at 98. usatoday.com (September 7, 2008). Retrieved on May 10, 2012.
11. Jump up ^ Berkvist, Robert (September 8, 2008). "Anita Page, Silent-Film Siren, Dies at 98". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2011. 

External links

	Biography portal
	Hispanic and Latino Americans portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anita Page.

• Anita Page at the Internet Movie Database
• Anita Page Biography and Gallery
• Anita Page Photo Gallery
• Anita Page at Golden Silents
• Guardian Interview with Anita Page
• Photographs of Anita Page
• "Anita Page". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 

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Actually Anita Page had an Irish mother, so she would be half Irish and half Salvadorian. Many famous movie actresses were at least part Irish, something that has not always been emphasized.

Prior to the 2004 interview with author Scott Feinberg, author Richard Lamparski* had hinted at Anita Page's problems at MGM without going into all the details. We also know that other actresses had similar problems with the producers, including Thelma Todd. This sort of thing was widespread at the time and was partly to blame for the bad reputation the movie business had.

Anita Page was very popular while she was at MGM and the studio acted as if she were less important than some of the less popular actresses. The situation was unfair and detrimental to her career. During this same period they also managed to ruin Buster Keaton's career. Evidently working for MGM wasn't always all it was cracked up to be.

*WHATEVER BECAME OF... FIFTH SERIES.



With Bessie Love in THE BROADWAY MELODY ( 1929 ).

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Buster Keaton in FREE AND EASY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cliff Edwards joins Anita Page and Buster Keaton for a musical rehearsal.

 

 

 

 

 

With Marie Dressler in REDUCING.

 

Marie Dressler was a top star in the early thirties.

 

 

The day before Thelma Todd was found dead, Anita Page was at Mrs.Wallace Ford's party when Mrs. Ford received a call from Thelma Todd.

 

 

But according to the authorities, Thelma Todd would already have been dead at that time and could not have made the call.  

 

 

 

POSTERS

 

FREE AND EASY

 

 

 

 

 

SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK ( 1931 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

NIGHT COURT ( 1932 )

 

 

 

 

COVER GIRL

 

 

Watch JUNGLE BRIDE:

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I'D LIKE TO SING A TORCH SONG

I'D LIKE TO SING A TORCH SONG was a 1933 Warner Brothers cartoon with many movie star caricatures, including Joan Blondell, Jimmy Cagney, Greta Garbo, and Wheeler and Woolsey . We see both Zasu Pitts and Mae West in this cartoon. It was not unusual to see them together in cartoons, but I don't know if they ever worked together in real life.

 Although the flappers had rebelled against corsets, some women still wore them,

 and occasionally they would be the subject of cartoonists.

 A radio fan, in the days before television.

Ed Wynn as "The Fire Chief", a reference to his radio program.

Seven Earths. By interpretation, this symbolizes completeness,

but I don't know if that's what they had in mind.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw is represented as punching the world, something that they seem to have put in because of some sort of socialist remarks he'd been making at the time.

The note on the flowers reading "From Shaw, to Shaw" tells us that he's stuck on himself, which is also why he has all the pictures of himself on the wall in the background.


Mussolini on a rocking horse, which seems to resemble him somewhat in the face. Mussolini's unlovely picture also hangs on the wall in the rear. As with Shaw, he is stuck on himself.

The feeling that I have is that this is a less favorable depiction of Mussolini then we see in I LIKE MOUNTAIN MUSIC, which was made around the same time at the same studio.

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                                               Bing Crosby is singing in the bathtub.

                                     Which was the name of another Warner Brothers song.





                                 A group of college girls listen to Bing Crosby on the radio.

which incidently was censored out of the version that I've actually seen. I've only seen this scene of this scene on the internet.

Tough guy Jimmy Cagney slapped women around in the movies ( something that evidently was considered acceptable at the time that I don't approve of myself ). I recognize the blonde as Joan Blondell by the eyes. She hits Jimmy Cagney with her shoe next. That sounds like her, too.

Besides being useful implements for hitting Jimmy Cagney with, the shoes are also in this scene because they were "dancing" with their hands on the table in the shoes during the opening shot of this sequence, which then panned upward to show the rest of them.

According to the imdb, this sequence references the 1931 movie BLONDE CRAZY.

                                                                Radio personality Ben Bernie.

Wheeler and Woolsey in SO THIS IS AFRICA.

Wheeler and Woolsey would also be depicted in the Flip the Frog cartoon SODA SQUIRT, which was made at around the same time, but at a different studio.

Greta Garbo was a serious dramatic actress, but the cartoonists liked to make fun of her..

Incidently, the significance of station KFWB was that it was owned by Warners at the time.

Zasu Pitts worked on the radio as well as in the movies and used to have a radio show with Thelma Todd as well as costarring with her in two-reel comedies. But at the time this cartoon was released, Zasu Pitts had already been replaced in the film series by Patsy Kelly.

Mae West is shown by herself and then with Zasu Pitts*. The cartoonists liked using them as characters and it would also be a recurring thing that they would be depicted together in cartoons.

Possibly that could be related to Zasu Pitts having worked with Thelma Todd.

A trio of girl singers.

The closing line "That's All, Folks!" seems to have first been used by Greta Garbo at the close of this cartoon. The line would later be swiped by Porky Pig at the same studio for other cartoons.       

* And with Greta Garbo, who actually was kind of important in this cartoon.   

I'VE GOT TO SING A TORCH SONG ( Zasu Pitts character shown )





BLONDE CRAZY ( Joan Blondell and Jimmy Cagney movie ):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021673/?ref_=tt_trv_cnn

Garbo Forever - Garbo in cartoons:
http://www.garboforever.com/Garbo_Cartoons.htm

I'D LIKE TO SING A TORCH SONG ( Cartoon )
http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2012/10/torch-song-celebrities.html

http://forgottenfilmcast.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/ive-got-to-sing-a-torch-song/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024167/?ref_=tt_trv_cnn

I LIKE MOUNTAIN MUSIC:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024155/

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Hollywood And The Axis Powers

There are stories about certain Hollywood personalities being somehow linked to the people who brought you World War II, an alliance of warmongers who termed themselves the Axis powers, because they claimed to be the axis upon which the rest of the world would revolve.

Actually it was not too unusual in the period between the wars for people in the motion picture industry to be around the people of the Axis. The Axis powers had agents all over the world, which of course included California.

Hal Roach's involvement with these people would have gone back further than is commonly believed.

Although this story is not well known today, Charlie Chaplin's butler Kono, who he hired back in the silent era, was actually a Japanese spy.

 

Doesn't Kono look friendly here with Chaplin?

 

 

Many of the people who were around Chaplin in this period would also have been familiar with Kono, who amoung other things seems to have been his chauffer and drove him around.

 

Kono ( third from the left ) in a picture with Laurel and Hardy.

 

 

 

Chaplin saw nothing wrong with Kono, but Paulette Goddard disliked him and in 1934 prevailed on Chaplin to release him from his employ.

Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in Tokyo, 1936.

 

Hal Roach seems to have been fingered as a facist sympathizer mainly because of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who claimed that he would restore to his country the glory that was Rome, and as an ally of Hitler was on the wrong side during World War II.

But at the time that Roach's association with Mussolini began, things were different.

Before war broke out in Europe, Mussolini was not always thought of as an enemy. Some people said they admired his accomplishments. You even see Mussolini depicted as one of the good guys in some old cartoons.


                                         Benito Mussolini in I LIKE MOUNTAIN MUSIC, 1933

American movies were very popular in Italy at the time. Including Laurel and Hardy movies. Mussolini decided to bring Hal Roach to Italy to make a movie. Roach, who traveled to Europe but hadn't actually made a movie there before, thought at the time that it sounded like a good idea.

 

 September 23, 1937. Original caption: "The first member of his famous family to visit these United States, Vittorio Mussolini, 20-year-old son of Italy's Premier, is pictured (center) on board the S.S. Rex on his way to New York. At right is Hal Roach, pioneer comedy movie maker, who will be Mussolini's mentor during his study of American film making. At left is Charles C. Puttyjohn. A scheduled Communist protest demonstration to greet the son of Il Duce on arrival at New York was foiled when the Coast Guard cutter Manhattan disembarked the visitor from the liner down the bay and brought him to the city by an unobtrusive route."

 

 

 

The communists opposed the Facists and there were many battles between them in Europe even before the war began. Here in the United States the communists agitated against the son of Mussolini as he was their enemy. Their outcry against Mussolini came to the attention of the general public.

 

 

 

 

 

September 26, 1937. Original caption: "What foreign dictator is often photographed in a pose strikingly similar to the gentleman on the right? Il Duce, of course. And the speaker in this instance is Vittorio Mussolini, hero of the Italian campaign in Abyssinia, is pictured at Burbank Air Terminal with his host, Hal Roach, noted film producer."

 

 

"Il Duce" was what Mussolini was called in Italy. "Hero of the Italian campaign in Abyssinia" refers to the part Vittorio played in the conquest of Ethiopa. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above: "Vittorio Mussolini, son of Italy's dictator who is here to study motion picture production technique, is shown being greeted by "Our Gang" when he visited Hal Roach Studios. Left to right: "Alfalfa" Switzer; Hal Roach, Jr., "Porky" Lee; "Spanky" McFarland; Vittorio Mussolini; Baby Patsy May (on Vittorio's knee) and Darla Hood with Pete the pup."

 

The thought that I have is that Roach thought it was all just business, but seeing the son of Mussolini posed with the Our Gang kids doesn't seem quite right to me, either.



Roach didn't make another movie with Rosina Lawrence after PICK A STAR in 1937, which I consider the end of what had been the Thelma Todd series. But he did send her to Italy to make a movie as part of his "Roach and Mussolini" operation. That deal was called off because of opposition by the rest of the film industry, but she did make another movie while she was in the country.

 

 

The caption for this photo merely mentions the role she actually got.

 

Which was a fictional story about an American movie star who came to Italy.




Meanwhile, Roach ( as well as Walt Disney ) was also criticized for publicly greeting Leni Riefenstahl when she came to Hollywood in 1938 to promote her documentary OLYMPIA while the rest of the movie industry shunned her because what she had made was Nazi propaganda.

 

But for a filmmaker to greet another filmmaker might not mean much of anything. It could be that this too was related to business.

Another Hollywood personality who got mixed up with Mussolini in this period was the Countess Difrasso*, frequently described in glowing terms in Hollywood histories for being associated with Gary Cooper and various other movie stars.

 

Countess Difrasso and Gary Cooper in the thirties

Difrasso and Bugsy Siegel both went to Italy and attempted to sell Mussolini what was supposed to be a revolutionary explosive which fizzled out when tested. Bugsy Siegel seems to have decided he didn't like Mussolini after that, but none of the gangsters over here liked Mussolini anyway. It seems the mafia was another bunch he'd been fighting with over there.



But to get back to Hal Roach: is there any indication that he really learned his lesson after his experiences with Axis filmmakers?


In 1942, Hal Roach released THE DEVIL WITH HITLER, which could be compared to the Three Stooges Hitler parodies that were released around that time.

 

 

 

 

 THE DEVIL WITH HITLER had a story involving a ( literally ) hellish plot to replace the Devil with Hitler.

 

 

 

Not surprisingly, the Devil was prominently featured in the publicity.

 

 

As were axis leaders Hirohito, Hitler, and Mussolini.

 

 

 

 

 One of the stars was Marjorie Woodworth, who was in BROADWAY LIMITED with Zasu Pitts and Patsy Kelly, both of whom had costarred in two-reel comedies with Thelma Todd.

During the war, Hal Roach was called back into the army and his studio was taken over by the army and used for making training films. They called it "Fort Roach".



                                                                       Fort Roach

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan at "Fort Roach".

 So it is clear that Roach himself was actually involved in the war effort. As were some of the people who had been working for him before the war.

Laurel and Hardy were part of "The Hollywood Victory Caravan" in 1942, the first big group of entertainers that toured army bases and entertained the troops.

They traveled by train,

And they traveled by plane.

The Hollywood Victory Caravan included Eddie

                                      Dowling President of Camp Shows, Ray Bolger, Mitzi
                                       Mayfair, Louis Polanski, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jane
                                       Pickens, Benay Venuta, and Show M.C. John Garfield.





Paulette Goddard, who had worked for Hal Roach, traveled to the China-Burma-India theater with the USO in 1944 to entertain the troops.

 

 

 

 

And Carole Landis, who became famous at the Roach studio, went on to become one of the movie stars who spent the most time entertaining the troops during the war years.

Carole Landis went on one tour with Mitzi Mayfair ( who had been in the Hollywood Victory Caravan with Laurel and Hardy ), Kay Francis, and Martha Raye.

The movie FOUR JILLS IN A JEEP was based on their experiences on this tour.

Finally, a word from author William Donati about the story that Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy.

Reblogged from http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/2012/05/04/william-donati-chimes-in/

Noted hoax biographer Charles Higham is dead.
For decades Higham feasted on the corpses of dead celebrities: Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Cary Grant, and others were victims of Higham’s degenerate imagination.
I proved that Higham engaged in the most heinous crime a non-fiction writer can perpetrate: he engaged in literary fraud to prove his thesis. Higham rewrote and published a government surveillance document to lie to readers that Flynn had been identified by authorities as a Nazi spy. The Los Angeles Times published my findings in “Shadows on a Legend” by Garry Abrams, March 24, 1989. Higham crowned himself as the worst hoax biographer in modern times.
William Donati



* The Countess Difrasso was also alleged to be an axis spy.




Charlie Chaplin Assasination plot:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/kill-chaplin.html

THE DEVIL WITH HITLER:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_with_Hitler

Countess Defrasso and Bugsy Siegel involved with Mussolini:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-kZmI5AF8ZAC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=countess+di+frasso&source=bl&ots=MwA4I_Z-oo&sig=uONHslY_rUM4uQHTT9ivs8Ch-U0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TDPTUfiqN4m0yQGIooDoCQ&ved=0CHYQ6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=countess%20di%20frasso&f=false


Errol Flynn:
http://www.inlikeflynn.com/

Errol Flynn - William Donati On Charles Higham:
http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/2012/05/04/william-donati-chimes-in/

Paulette Goddard:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/02/paulette-goddard.html

Paulette Goddard google news:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19430909&id=edMoAAAAIBAJ&sjid=19EEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1701,2348003


Leni Riefenstahl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/sep/09/world.news1

PORTRAID OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL ( Google Books ):
http://books.google.com/books?id=34smFjA9v9AC&pg=PT266&lpg=PT266&dq=leni+riefenstahl+and+hal+roach&source=bl&ots=6J8iFOeiqW&sig=lMrO3yuodhQrx--_uW6Hf9Usb2A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=03jTUfibK4XpywHWn4HQBw&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg

Hal Roach and Mussolini ( A HISTORY OF THE HAL ROACH STUDIOS ):
http://books.google.com/books?id=dY4-pWxOzD0C&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=hal+roach+and+mussolini&source=bl&ots=zF1THneMi2&sig=GfYcDOwXaKT8z8hV6JvxHAaIN_o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=L3HQUZWSOsWGyAG494HwBw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=hal%20roach%20and%20mussolini&f=false

Hal Roach and Mussolini ( LIFE ):
http://books.google.com/books?id=0UQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&dq=hal+roach+and+mussolini&hl=en&sa=X&ei=t3HQUaGMN6TYyQGwlYDwBA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=hal%20roach%20and%20mussolini&f=false

Hal Roach defends Mussolini deal:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19371005&id=W7FQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CCIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6800,1732948

Hollywood, Hal Roach, and the Anti-Nazi League:
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/3/7/4/0/p237404_index.html

Hal Roach Studio leased by the army ( Fort Roach ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Motion_Picture_Unit


Thelma Todd mentioned in Bund-related FBI file:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/05/thelma-todd-mentioned-in-wwii-fbi-file.html


USO camp shows:
http://www.usoshows.co.uk/history/


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