Entertainers

Below is a highlight list of actors/entertainers that were around during the 1940s. Astonishing.  See for yourself, I bet you'll agree! 

Charles Chaplin, Dana Andrews, Jean Arthur, Fred Astaire, Mary Astor, Lauren Bacall, Josephine Baker, Anne Baxter, Jack Benny, William Bendix, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, Walter Brennan, James Cagney, Cab Calloway, Lon Chaney Jr., Montgomery Clift, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Abbott and Costello, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Dandridge, Bette Davis, Doris Day, Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich, Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Irene Dunne, Duke Ellington, Alice Faye, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Joan Fontaine, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Sidney Greenstreet, Carl Stuart Hamblen, Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Lena Horne, Walter Huston, Jennifer Jones, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Lamour, Bert Lancaster, Laurel and Hardy, Charles Laughton, Peter Lawford, Vivien Leigh, Gene Lockhart, June Lockhart, Carole Lombard, Peter Lorre, Myrna Loy, Ida Lupino, Vera Lynn, Fred MacMurray, Fredric March, Ray Milland, Carmen Miranda, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret O'Brien, Maureen O'Hara, Gregory Peck, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Eleanor Powell, William Powell, Tyrone Power, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Reagan, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Roy Rogers, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Rosalind Russell, Joseph Schildkraut, Lizabeth Scott, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Taylor, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Orson Welles, Richard Widmark, Cornel Wilde, Jane Wyman, Loretta Young