The Hollywood Canteen

Lisa Mitchell has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and DGA magazine. She wrote the Hollywood chapter in The Hollywood Bowl: Tales of Summer Nights, cowrote two award-winning short films, and wrote and produced nationally syndicated television programs. A former actress, she specializes in writing and lecturing about Hollywood’s Golden Age, and has appeared in several television documentaries discussing the subject.

Bruce Torrence is the owner of one of the world’s largest archives of Hollywood historic images, HollywoodPhotographs.com. Included in the archive is the most extensive collection of Canteen photos and memorabilia. A respected authority on Hollywood history, Torrence has written numerous articles and papers on Hollywood and shares his unique knowledge of his native town in interviews and lectures.

Nat Segaloff is a writer, producer, journalist, and Hugo and Locus Award-nominated author of more than two dozen books about filmmakers and film history, including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin. He covered the film industry for the Boston Herald and worked on A&E's flagship Biography series as well as programming for The Learning Channel, New World, Disney, Turner Classic Movies, and USA Network. As one of the original publicists on The Exorcist, he closes a haunting chapter in his life with The Exorcist Legacy. Segaloff lives in Los Angeles and can be found online at natsegaloff.com.