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Four Jills in a Jeep
Four Jills in a Jeep is a 1944 American comedy-drama musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair as themselves, reenacting their USO tour of Europe and North Africa during World War II.
Tired of doing morale-boosting radio shows from the safety of an American studio, the title quartet get their wish to be shipped overseas as a USO tour--Raye and Landis and Mayfair as performers and Francis as tour co-ordinator. They are always accompanied by Eddie, their jolly jeep driver and luggage toter.
The theme is that romance can be interrupted by war at any given time--Landis falls for officer Ted Warren and Mitzi meets Lt. Dick Ryan, an old flame whose dance team broke up under bad circumstances.
Never dreaming it could actually happen, Raye jokes that they would be happy to entertain on the front lines. They get orders to sail to North Africa just before the married Landis and Harvey plan a one-night honeymoon.
Arriving in North Africa, the quartet finds they have to travel by camel. There they discover the biggest need is not for entertainers, but for nurses. The quartet pitch in to give whatever help and comfort they can, winning the respect of the head nurse. Then, even though they are bone-tired, they put on one final show for the soldiers.
The working titles of the film were Command Performance and Camp Show.
The film is based on the actual experiences of Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair, members of the Feminine Theatrical Task Force who left the United States on October 16, 1942, and performed several shows per day for American and British troops in England, Ireland and North Africa. They also presented a command performance for the queen of the United Kingdom.
After leaving England, the women spent three weeks in North Africa, the first USO tour of that area. Francis and Mayfair then returned to the United States. Landis returned to England to join her husband. As depicted in the film, Landis met U.S. Army Air Forces pilot Capt. Thomas C. Wallace in England in November 1942 and married him on January 5, 1943. The couple divorced in July 1945. Raye continued touring, and her association with the USO endured through the American wars in Korea and Vietnam.
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Four Jills in a Jeep is a 1944 American comedy-drama musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair as themselves, reenacting their USO tour of Europe and North Africa during World War II.
Tired of doing morale-boosting radio shows from the safety of an American studio, the title quartet get their wish to be shipped overseas as a USO tour--Raye and Landis and Mayfair as performers and Francis as tour co-ordinator. They are always accompanied by Eddie, their jolly jeep driver and luggage toter.
The theme is that romance can be interrupted by war at any given time--Landis falls for officer Ted Warren and Mitzi meets Lt. Dick Ryan, an old flame whose dance team broke up under bad circumstances.
Never dreaming it could actually happen, Raye jokes that they would be happy to entertain on the front lines. They get orders to sail to North Africa just before the married Landis and Harvey plan a one-night honeymoon.
Arriving in North Africa, the quartet finds they have to travel by camel. There they discover the biggest need is not for entertainers, but for nurses. The quartet pitch in to give whatever help and comfort they can, winning the respect of the head nurse. Then, even though they are bone-tired, they put on one final show for the soldiers.
The working titles of the film were Command Performance and Camp Show.
The film is based on the actual experiences of Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair, members of the Feminine Theatrical Task Force who left the United States on October 16, 1942, and performed several shows per day for American and British troops in England, Ireland and North Africa. They also presented a command performance for the queen of the United Kingdom.
After leaving England, the women spent three weeks in North Africa, the first USO tour of that area. Francis and Mayfair then returned to the United States. Landis returned to England to join her husband. As depicted in the film, Landis met U.S. Army Air Forces pilot Capt. Thomas C. Wallace in England in November 1942 and married him on January 5, 1943. The couple divorced in July 1945. Raye continued touring, and her association with the USO endured through the American wars in Korea and Vietnam.