ABSTRACT
Hollywood was to be expected, arrived immediately after Pearl Harbor in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm and economic shrewdness. Government regulations, which emerged almost immediately after Pearl Harbor, had a significant effect on the workings of the American film industry. Abyssinia Roosevelt, with other matters on his mind, replied gently asking Gable to remain in Hollywood making pictures for civilian morale. The Remember Pearl Harbor is notable for its singular omission of Pearl Harbor and indicates how difficult Hollywood writers found the concept of defeat. For British the defeat has invariably been glorious and audiences have been positively obsessed by films about Dunkirk and other military disasters. This chapter discusses the War between the United States and Japan broke just as it began to look as though the sheet music business would have its biggest year end since 1938.
