Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen

Glitter, stage lights, and heavily drawn-on eyebrows were de rigueur among Hollywood starlets, all just looking to be the next big thing in a crumbling post-war society... but what you truly see without social media, cell phones with telephoto lenses, and airbrushing apps? All of the unfiltered good......more

Annie Laurence is a playwright, she writes murder mysteries, after she breaks up from a long term relationship, she moves to Hollywood and has been offered a contract with Pacific Pictures and they want her to write musicals. Annie wants to meet film critic Fiona Farris, her reviews are full of wit,......more

LOVED THE HOLLYWWOD SETTING, BUT WASN'T CAPTURED BY THE MYSTERY I absolutely love Golden Age Hollywood and binge watch all the old movies, so that was definitely the thing that first spoke to me about this book. I really liked the setting and seeing of the old stars - such as Bette Davis and Mickey R......more

Meh… interesting Hollywood characters; but overall I didn’t care much about the murder mystery, and the context of WWII was nearly non-existent. Quite disappointed that there was only the bare minimum said about how Hollywood changed plots, avoided stars being drafted, and more to keep the motion pi......more

Who has two thumbs and has a girl crush on the cover of “Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen” That would be meeeeeeee. I am also a crazy, slightly obsessed fan of Sarah James. I mean who could really blame me, am I right or am I right ? This book will take you back in time and teleport you to a whole......more