Description - This listing is for 1 DVD containing 36 episodes of Mail Call.

Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis (commander of the Armed Forces Radio Service) wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American manner." The program featured popular entertainers of that day, such as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Dinah Shore, performing musical numbers and comedy skits to boost the morale of soldiers stationed far from their homes. Lewis added, "To a fellow who has spent months guarding an outpost in the South Seas, Iceland or Africa a cheery greeting from a favorite comedian, a song hit direct from Broadway, or the beating rhythm of a hot band, mean a tie with the home to which he hopes soon to return.

1 Groucho Marx, Betty Grable, Judy Garland - 29:54
2 George Jessel, Mary Lee, Paulette Goddard - 01:03:48
3 Edward G Robinson, Dick Powell, Marion Hutton, Ann Miller - 29:38
4 Groucho Marx, Irene Manning, Paulette Goddard - 30:47
5 Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, Delta Rhythm Boys - 30:29
6 Bing Crosby, Skinnay Ennis, Dorothy Lamour - 31:09
7 Dedicated to the State of Washington - Bing Crosby, Richard Crooks, Connee Boswell - 01:00:46
8 Dedicated to the State of Pennsylvania - Lionel Barrymore, Connie Haines, Pied Pipers - 01:00:43
9 Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby - 31:27
10 Tribute to Hawaii - Bing Crosby, Connie Haines, Betty Grable - 30:09
11 Tribute to Canada - Norma Shearer, Cecilia Parker, Ann Rutherford - 30:15
12 Tribute to the State of Maine - Rudy Vallee, Frank Sinatra, Fred Allen, Mary Livingstone - 30:03
13 Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Burns and Allen - 29:45
14 Ginny Simms, Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford - 31:00
15 Kay Kyser, Georgia Gibbs, Kathryn Grayson, Ish Kabibble - 30:23
16 Tallulah Bankhead, Danny Kaye, Ethel Smith - 29:52
17 Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens, Garry Moore - 31:32
18 Dinah Shore, Carlos Ramirez, Jimmy Durante, Virginia O'Brien - 30:03
19 Guest - - 30:18
20 Ann Rutherford, Johnny Mercer, Garry Moore - 24:15
21 Groucho Marx, Robert Benchley, Ida Lupino, Gloria DeHaven - 31:14
22 Bing Crosby, Lauritz Melchior, Cass Daley - 30:27
23 June Allyson, Harriet Hilliard, Ozzie Nelson, Riders of the Purple Sage - 31:09
24 Don Ameche, Marguerite Chapman, Bobbie Baker - 59:29
25 Dick Haymes, King Sisters, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson - 01:01:53
26 Jack Benny, Paulette Goddard, Claudette Colbert, Jeannie Crain, Jinx Falkenburg (assembled) - 29:08
27 Frank Morgan, Burns and Allen, Harpo Marx, Rita Hayworth - 30:51
28 Ginny Simms, Robert Benchley, Gildersleeve - 22:18
29 Bob Hope, Clark Gable, Margaret O'Brien, Dame May Whitty - 30:52
30 Betty Grable, George Jessel, Mills Brothers - 30:01
31 Groucho Marx, Kenny Baker, Kathryn Grayson - 31:14
32 George Murphy, Virginia O'Brien, Abigail and Buddy, Burns and Allen - 30:36
33 Fred MacMurray, Yvonne DeCarlo, Ralph Edwards - 30:29
34 Guest - Gloria DeHaven - 31:58
35 Peggy Knudsen, Betty Grable, Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles - 29:58
36 Frances Gifford, Jo Stafford, Danny Thomas, Clark Dennis (assembled) - 13:44

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