Stage Door Canteen

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Stage Door Canteen is a 1943 American film, directed by Frank Borzage. The film was a World War II morale raiser, with a principal cast of relatively unknown actors in a fictional story set in New York City's "Stage Door Canteen". It featured numerous cameo appearances from film, stage and radio stars of the day.

[edit] Principal cast members

Lon McCallister as California Jack Gilman

Cheryl Walker as Eileen Burke

[edit] Featured performers as themselves

Kenny Baker	Count Basie	Count Basie with Ethel Waters and band	Count Basie with Ethel Waters and band
Edgar Bergen with Charley McCarthy	Edgar Bergen with Mortimer Snerd	Ray Bolger	William Demarest and Cheryl Walker
Gracie Fields	Benny Goodman with band and featured singer Peggy Lee	Benny Goodman	Helen Hayes
Katharine Hepburn	George Jessel	Kay Kyser	June Lang
Gypsy Rose Lee	Peggy Lee	Freddy Martin	Freddy Martin
Elsa Maxwell	Helen Menken	Yehudi Menuhin	Ethel Merman
Merle Oberon	Dame May Whitty	Ed Wynn