Editors of Look

This book presents, through copious b/w photo-illustrations, a detailed look at Hollywood's role in the Allied efforts of WW2, from the early stirrings of war through newsreels, to the aftermath of worldwide conflict and a hopeful postwar future. Chapters cover G.I. training and informational films, war pictures real and fictional, Hollywood stars and the USO, and the use of "star power" to support the war effort on the home front.

Heavily illustrated history of the Hollywood film industry's involvement in the World War II effort. Told from the gung-ho partisan perspective of the time by the editors of the once-popular photo essay magazine "Look." The coverage in this is pretty wide-ranging and great, and very evocative and lively. The subject is covered from just about every angle - from documentary and propaganda and training films to celebrity USO and bond efforts.… (more)

This issue of Look magazine includes the article "Career Woman - 1942 Style", which was the first major magazine profile of M.F.K. Fisher. It was the 4th article in Look's series on American women. The profile itself is on the "light" side, but it contains fantastic photos, including one of Fisher lounging on a chaise with her pet Dachsund, and another of her picking grapes while wearing sunglasses and a gigantic striped straw sunhat. pp. 26-8. The text of the article was reprinted in Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher, ed. by David Lazar, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.… (more)