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.

1. Entertainment 1940’s
By: Mary Claire Lartz

2. Music
• Bebop- New genre in the 40’s. Combined
rhythm and blues
• Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington,
and Benny Goodmen…famous vocalists
• Lots of songs were about the war

3. Radio
• Children cartoons were converted into radio
shows
• Popular hosts Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Costello,
Abbot
• Unique styles of shows made them
recognizable

4. Broadway
• Broadway was created before the 40’s but
never caught on until the early 40’s
• Something for the boys”, “State of the Art”,
and “Lady in the Dark”
• Lots of the shows and musicals were about
the war

5. Television
• Film was in color by this time, it was really
catching on
• Cartoons were very popular, “porky pig” and
“bugs bunny”

6. Movies
• Most movies in the 1940’s were influenced by the
war
• Michael Curtiz,a director from America who had
made several war related films, including “Dive
Bomber”.
• Within 6 months of the bombing of peral harbor