Lisa Mitchell has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and DGA magazine. She wrote the Hollywood chapter in The Hollywood Bowl: Tales of Summer Nights, cowrote two award-winning short films, and wrote and produced nationally syndicated television programs. A former actress, she specializes in writing and lecturing about Hollywood's Golden Age, and has appeared in several television documentaries discussing the subject.
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The Hollywood Canteen was the jewel in the crown of World War II Hollywood. From 1942 to 1945, over three million servicemen came through its doors on their way to fight in the Pacific—some never to return. There, in a converted barn in the heart of Hol... SEE MORE