Monday, October 7, 2024

Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen

 

"Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen" was pretty good. Set during WWII, the Hollywood Canteen was a place where studio stars and workers volunteered their time to entertain servicemen. 

Annie Laurence is a writer who's new to Hollywood. She followed her former boyfriend and girlfriend out after they left New York for a contract at MGM. Obviously they had to keep their relationship hush hush, but critic Fiona Farris reviewed the last play that Annie wrote and made a joke about her sleeping with both the main stars. Fiona is killed one night at the canteen and Annie is a suspect, along with the rest of the group of friends known as the Ambassador's Club. 

It was a good mystery, I didn't see the ending coming (but then again, I rarely do). I liked the historical element of it, too. Reading about old Hollywood, even in fiction, is usually fun. 

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