oscaralbert Review of Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After (1944)

Eventual U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart . . .

[7/10 · 21 February 2017]

. . . is one of the 1,055 blue star Active Duty U.S. Servicemembers fighting Hitler and Tojo during World War Two, at the time MGM's Studio front office tally was filmed for this Den of the Roaring Lion 20th anniversary "puff piece" in 1944. By this juncture in the War, four MGM Studio personnel had earned Gold Stars by getting Killed in Action. The second most interesting bit of trivia connected to TWENTY YEARS AFTER is now little trace of the studio's Magnum Opus--GONE WITH THE WIN--shows up here five years after ITS release. None of the 39 Actors being touted as MGM's "Stars of Today" played any of the six lead characters of GWTW (i.e., Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia DeHavilland, Leslie Howard, Butterfly McQueen, and Hattie McDaniel are all M.I.A., as are any of the other Black faces appearing IN FRONT of the camera for MGM in the 1940s). Many 1930s MGM stars ARE listed, including Hepburn & Tracy, Garland & Rooney, Powell & Loy, as well as Kelly & Astaire.