Broehm 16 
have to be about the war or have a war background, but it did mean that every
picture, 
romantic or dramatic or funny, would "involve a consciousness of war."
56 For example 
Myrna Loy could "spend her afternoon at a Red Cross class" just
as easily as she could 
"spend it playing bridge." Bob Hope could do a routine about the
rubber shortage just as 
easily as he could fall into a swimming pool."'57 Susan describes the
musicals, of World 
War II as "absolutely marvelous." She adds, "Usually there
would be a woman whose 
husband was in the service... she would get the notice that he is missing
in action. At 
the end of the movie, her husband would show up. I tell you, there would
not be a dry 
eye in the theater."58 
The movies often portrayed the Japanese as "bloodthirsty savages who
operate 
outside the bounds of civilized warfare.,59 Universal Studio's, Menance of
the Rising 
Sun, featured a huge Japanese figure with blood dripping from its buck-toothed
fangs. 
This creature swatted American planes from mid-air and crushed American ships
at 
sea.6° Even Tarzan enlisted for the Allies. In the movie, Tarzan Triumphs,
the Germans 
were so despicable that even the animals turned against them.61 
A ten-year-old homefront boy reveals that he found the war movies "exciting
with 
all the machine guns and bombs." He adds, "After the movies, the
neighborhood kids 
56 Blum, 25. 
57 Blum, 25. 
58 Susan Dick, interview by Barbara Broehm. 
59 Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics,
Profits, and 
Propaganda Shaped World War IIMovies, (New York: Free Press, 1987), 79. 
6Koppes, 60. 
61 Koppes, 61.