So Proudly We Hail!
So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 American war film directed and produced by Mark Sandrich and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard – who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance – and Veronica Lake.
Also featuring George Reeves, it was produced and released by Paramount Pictures.
The film follows a group of military nurses sent to the Philippines during the early days of World War II.
The movie was based on a book written by Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Hipps, a World War II nurse – one of the" Angels of Bataan" – who served in Bataan and Corregidor during the time when McArthur withdrew to Australia which ultimately led to the surrender of US and Philippine troops to Japanese forces.
Those prisoners of war were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March.
The film was also based, in part, on Hipps' memoir" I Served On Bataan".
Allan Scott (American screenwriter)
Allan Scott( May 23, 1906 – April 13, 1995) was a screenwriter who was nominated for an Academy Award for" So Proudly We Hail!".
He co-wrote the screenplays for a number of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films:" Top Hat"( 1935)," Follow the Fleet"( 1936)," Swing Time"( 1936)," Shall We Dance"( 1937), and" Carefree"( 1938), as well as" Roberta"( 1935), in which they played supporting roles.
He died on 13 April 1995 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, at aged 88.
Allan was the father of actor Pippa Scott and brother of film producer and screenwriter Adrian Scott.
Paulette Goddard
Paulette Goddard( born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress, a child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s.
Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in" Modern Times", and Chaplin's subsequent film" The Great Dictator".
She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in" So Proudly We Hail!"( 1943).
Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.
Amy Kass
Amy Judith Kass( née Apfel; September 17, 1940 – August 19, 2015) was an American academic and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
She spent most of her career as a professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago.
Her scholarly interests included courtship, marriage, citizenship and philanthropy.
Her books include" Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying", and" What So Proudly We Hail: America ’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song".
Sonny Tufts
Bowen Charlton" Sonny" Tufts III( July 16, 1911 – June 4, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
He is best known for the films he made as a contract star at Paramount in the 1940s, including" So Proudly We Hail!".
He also starred in the cult classic" Cat- Women of the Moon".
Monkeybone
Monkeybone is a 2001 American dark comedy fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, written by Sam Hamm, produced by Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe, and executive produced by Chris Columbus, Selick, and Hamm.
The film combines live- action with stop- motion animation.
Based on Kaja Blackley's graphic novel" Dark Town", the film stars an ensemble cast led by Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, and Whoopi Goldberg with Rose McGowan, Dave Foley, Giancarlo Esposito, Megan Mullally, Lisa Zane, Chris Kattan, John Turturro, and an uncredited Thomas Haden Church.
Theatrically released on February 23, 2001 by 20th Century Fox, the film was a box office bomb and received generally negative critical reviews.
Juanita Redmond Hipps
Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Redmond Hipps( July 1, 1912 – February 25, 1979) was a US Army nurse during World War II.
She was present in the Philippines during the early part of the war and was regarded as one of the Angels of Bataan.
A bestselling book she wrote about her experiences formed the background for the 1943 war movie" So Proudly We Hail!"
Hipps helped to establish the United States Air Force's flight nurse programme.
She remained with the army until her retirement in 1969 and travelled the world on postings alongside her husband, a US Air Force general.
The US Air Force Association's highest award for nursing is named in her honor.
Henry Selick
Charles Henry Selick( born November 30, 1952) is an American stop motion director, producer, and writer who is best known for directing the stop- motion animation films" The Nightmare Before Christmas"( 1993)," James and the Giant Peach"( 1996), and" Coraline"( 2009).
He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel.
Mark Sandrich
Mark Sandrich( born Mark Rex Goldstein; October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was an American film director, writer, and producer.
Leon Kass
Leon Richard Kass( born February 12, 1939) is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the" Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning, life extension and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005.
Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as" an old- fashioned humanist.
A humanist is concerned broadly with all aspects of human life, not just the ethical."
Kass is currently the Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
His books include" Toward A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our NatureLife, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis"; and" What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song".
" For his students and readers," Yuval Levin summarizes," Leon Kass has laid out a path of inquiry showing that those questions that bedevil us most today have been with us for countless generations, and have to do not with the latest modern excess, but with man ’s unchanging nature, wants, needs, and potential.
It is a path ... that opens with a question:
How does man thrive?"

Question: Do both films Monkeybone and So Proudly We Hail! have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes