The document summarizes entertainment in the 1940s, including the rise of bebop music and famous bands led by Miller, Dorsey, Ellington, and Goodman. Radio adapted cartoons to its format and popular hosts like Jack Benny and Bob Hope had unique show styles. Broadway musicals like "Something for the Boys" and "Lady in the Dark" grew in popularity, many war-themed, while television was beginning with colored cartoons like Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny. Most movies of the 1940s reflected the war, directed by filmmakers such as Michael Curtiz who made propaganda films shortly after Pearl Harbor.