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10-22-02, 06:16 PM
Hollywood Stars and Their Service in the Marine Corps
This unique, well-written, and fascinating volume is a companion to Wise
and Rehill's Stars in Blue: Movie Actor's in America's Sea Services,
published by the Naval Institute Press in 1997, which was also assessed by
your current reviewer. See
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12705884375164 Like its predecessor, Stars in the Corps is a valuable resource for
scholars and aficionados of motion picture films, military buffs and
historians, and students of American popular culture. This volume is the
equal to and in several ways surpasses its earlier companion and is itself
a valuable reference. Structurally, the volume contains a preface and
introduction, two parts comprising 28 short biographies, four appendices,
and 101 black-and-white images. A very useful Bibliography lists 92 books
and periodicals, thirteen reference works, twelve interviews or
correspondence, five major official records or archives, and five other
sources. A six-page double column index lists, in the main, proper nouns
and is an appropriate finding aid.
The senior author, James Wise, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy, served
as a naval aviator and intelligence officer, and is the author of four
other books concerning naval topics. His co-author, Anne Rehill, a
magazine writer and editor, is a former acquisitions editor for the Naval
Institute Press, and professes English at Penn State University. In his
initial remarks, Wise reminds us that the USMC was founded in 1775 and
since that time has participated in 171 wars and expeditions (with 40,000
Marines killed and 189,000 wounded), and that since 1862, 301 Marines have
been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The authors also point out
that many of the actors they interviewed were extremely proud of their
Marine experience and that their service had benefited them in their
professional lives -- indeed Semper Fidelis ("always faithful") to the
Corps. Actor Hugh O'Brien and comedian Jonathan Winters are exemplars.
Some of the biographies are upbeat and heart warming and others pensive
and melancholic. Known to many film fans as actors rather than as Marines
are actors Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Tyrone Power, and George C. Scott.
Perhaps less well know are Sterling Hayden, Peter Ortiz, Lee Powell, and
Tad Van Brunt. There were troubled youths (Hayden, Marvin, and McQueen);
Yale scholars (Bradford Dillman and George Roy Hill); Hollyw
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This unique, well-written, and fascinating volume is a companion to Wise
and Rehill's Stars in Blue: Movie Actor's in America's Sea Services,
published by the Naval Institute Press in 1997, which was also assessed by
your current reviewer. See
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12705884375164 Like its predecessor, Stars in the Corps is a valuable resource for
scholars and aficionados of motion picture films, military buffs and
historians, and students of American popular culture. This volume is the
equal to and in several ways surpasses its earlier companion and is itself
a valuable reference. Structurally, the volume contains a preface and
introduction, two parts comprising 28 short biographies, four appendices,
and 101 black-and-white images. A very useful Bibliography lists 92 books
and periodicals, thirteen reference works, twelve interviews or
correspondence, five major official records or archives, and five other
sources. A six-page double column index lists, in the main, proper nouns
and is an appropriate finding aid.
The senior author, James Wise, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy, served
as a naval aviator and intelligence officer, and is the author of four
other books concerning naval topics. His co-author, Anne Rehill, a
magazine writer and editor, is a former acquisitions editor for the Naval
Institute Press, and professes English at Penn State University. In his
initial remarks, Wise reminds us that the USMC was founded in 1775 and
since that time has participated in 171 wars and expeditions (with 40,000
Marines killed and 189,000 wounded), and that since 1862, 301 Marines have
been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The authors also point out
that many of the actors they interviewed were extremely proud of their
Marine experience and that their service had benefited them in their
professional lives -- indeed Semper Fidelis ("always faithful") to the
Corps. Actor Hugh O'Brien and comedian Jonathan Winters are exemplars.
Some of the biographies are upbeat and heart warming and others pensive
and melancholic. Known to many film fans as actors rather than as Marines
are actors Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Tyrone Power, and George C. Scott.
Perhaps less well know are Sterling Hayden, Peter Ortiz, Lee Powell, and
Tad Van Brunt. There were troubled youths (Hayden, Marvin, and McQueen);
Yale scholars (Bradford Dillman and George Roy Hill); Hollyw
Continued....
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