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The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in the January 23, 1939, issue of LIFE: “The top box-office star of Warner Bros., in blue slacks, skims through the morning newspapers in the playroom of her home. The walls are decorated with Mexican posters.”
1935: American actor Shirley Temple presents the Best Actress Oscar to French-born actor Claudette Colbert (1903 – 1996) for her role in director Frank Capra’s film, ‘It Happened One Night’, Los Angeles, California. Colbert holds a fur coat over her arm, preparing to travel to New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, was married to Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse. Taylor has been the voice of Minnie since 1986 while Allwine voiced Mickey for three decades, only two people have voiced Mickey before him – Jimmy MacDonald and Walt Disney himself. Allwine and Taylor were married from 1991 until Allwine’s death in 2009. Of their marriage, Taylor once stated,
Everybody goes, ‘Oh, that’s so sweet.’ When we got married, we kind of kept it quiet because everybody was saying, ‘Oh, Mickey and Minnie got married.’ It wasn’t Mickey and Minnie; it was Wayne and Russi. We wanted to keep it about us and not about the characters.
Taylor was also the voice of Scrooge’s grand nephews, the identical triplets - Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck on the animated television series DuckTales.
Dennis McLellan, “Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse, dies at 62,” Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2009.
Wayne Allwine’s IMDb.com biography
Russi Taylor’s IMDb.com biography
Actress Carole Landis, a hugely popular pin-up “poster girl” among Allied troops, logged over 100,000 miles during the war, and spent more time visiting with servicemen than any other American actress. Amoebic dysentery and malaria were just two of the illnesses she contracted during her travels. She also battled depression for years, and committed suicide, at the age of 29, in 1948.
The German-born Dietrich is surrounded by two sailors, a soldier, and a Marine at a 1942 USO event at New York City’s Astor Hotel. A staunch anti-Nazi, she became a U.S. citizen in 1939 and was one of the first major celebrities to actively support the Allied war effort.
Dietrich peruses paperwork related to her wartime efforts in 1943. For the duration of World War II, she would tour relentlessly across the U.S., North Africa, and Europe in support of the troops. It was also during the war that Dietrich, raised in a Protestant household, lost her faith after hearing the “devout” on both sides of the conflict invoking God to aid their cause and destroy their enemies. “If God exists,” she later said, “he needs to review his plan.”
Servicemen, like these G.I.s in Germany in early 1945, adored Dietrich — and openly admired her fearlessness when visiting troops far from the safety of Hollywood. A native of Germany, she became an American citizen in 1939. When asked why she had traveled to war zones to entertain and comfort Allied troops, she famously and simply replied, “aus Anstand.” “It was the decent thing to do.”
At an evacuation hospital near the Italian front lines, Marlene Dietrich sits on a piano while wounded troops gather around to listen to her sing, May 1944.
Dressed in a U.S. Army Air Force uniform, Dietrich waits to entertain American troops in France on June 10, 1944, four days after the Normandy invasion.
During her tour of the European front, Dietrich eats, sleeps, and dresses like the G.I.s, but at showtime, as in this February 1945 photo, she changes into a sequined gown and gold pumps.
Dietrich pulls an awed serviceman on stage during a performance near the European front in February 1945, one of 500 USO appearances she’ll make during the war.
Sailors help Dietrich disembark the Queen Elizabeth liner upon her return from her USO tour in August 1945. For her war efforts, she would receive the Presidential Medal of Honor.
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