Hollywood Fan Mail During Wartime (Presentation)
by Regis Hoffman and Thomas Richards
This presentation was first given at the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show, May 2017.
It describes a wide variety of fan mail sent to Hollywood stars by military members, usually during wartime. Various examples of censorship and mail handling are described.
The approach includes:
- Social history – even in times of war, people tried to maintain some sense of normalcy
- An interest in Hollywood stars was universal. Will see letters from soldiers, POWs, internees and civilians
- We learned much about obscure areas of military postal history.
This presentation was created by, and is the property of the authors, and is being supplied as a courtesy to the Military Postal History Society for educational and research purposes.
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