Swingtime Canteen May 17, 2007

'Swingtime Canteen' takes its inspiration from the films and personalities that helped to define the national consciousness known as "the war effort". After 17 years with MGM, still-glamorous movie legend Marian Ames has endured four flop films in a row and is being put out to pasture. But this is 1944 and no time for self-pity. So Marian has gathered up her instrument playing gal pals from the Hollywood Canteen and headed for London to entertain the troops. This heartwarming story of the World War II era has an evocative balancing act of music and comedy, parody and sentiment.