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Glamorous Wartime Singer
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Sometimes occurring in a nightclub, but any large auditorium will do the trick. A sexy female singer, singing a song to a bunch of soldiers/sailors/airmen who are a long way from home and their significant others. Her outfit will be sexy, but classy: shapely and form-fitting, but not particularly revealing or flashy. There is a good chance that it will be a seductive shade of red. If the main male characters of the story aren't in attendance, they will likely be in the middle of battle, with her songs providing the soundtrack as scenes switch between her performance and the battle. Many Glamorous Wartime Singers sing sentimental songs, reminding the troops of home and the girls they left behind. If people aren't wolf-whistling, she's clearly not doing the job properly. Causing Nose Bleed is an acceptable substitute, especially in anime. If the main character is a dashing young captain, well, he's in for a little wartime romance. Famous Real Life examples also became a popular subject for drag impersonations in shows produced by servicemen. Particularly present in World War II settings. Compare Camp Follower and The Chanteuse. Contrast with Tokyo Rose, its more antagonistic counterpart. |
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Blossom had an episode in which the title character's grandfather Buzz Richman is reminiscing about having met Blossom's grandmother (played in the flashback scenes by title character's actress Mayim Bialik) who was depicted as this... and also as part of the Women's Army Corps. | |
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Greta in Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter. | |
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Apocalypse Now- although these are actually Playboy playmates rather than singers, and their presence causes a riot. | |
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Black Canary in DC Comics Bombshells is this, with Make Me Wanna Shout powers to back up her singing ability. | |
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A rather... peculiar example from The Simpsons. Grandpa mentions in one of his war stories that he was stranded behind enemy lines in France, and rode out the war undercover as a cross-dressing Cabaret singer entertaining German soldiers. | |
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Rachel Stein posing as Ellis De Vries in Zwartboek. | |
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The Sapphires is based on the true story of an Australian Aboriginal girl group who travelled to Vietnam to entertain the U.S. soldiers during The Vietnam War. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Starcrossed", Michael Ryan gives his former lover Cass Trenton a job as a singer in his coffee bar Heaven to help her hide from the Hing. | |
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Brigitte "Rosie" Stark used to be a famous bar singer before joining Squad 7. As revealed in Valkyria Chronicles II, after leaving the Militia she goes on to be this trope full time, holding concerts during Gallia's Civil War to try and improve race relations. | |
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Recurring character Louise in French series Lazy Company combines this trope with The Chanteuse and Lady in Red. | |
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Arrested Development, Lucille Bluth apparently made quite an impact while touring Vietnam with U.S.O. | |
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Unusual version in Big Fish: The main character accidentally parachutes into one of these during the Korean War— in enemy territory. Also, the "beautiful singer" is in fact a pair of Siamese twins, who want him to bring them to America with him. | |
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Minmay from the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross (and therefore Robotech). | |
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Sky Marshall Omar Anoke (of all people) from Starship Troopers 3: Marauder is a rare male example. As such, he depends more on inspirational rhetoric than sex appeal but still fulfills his role in the Propaganda Machine perfectly. | |
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Valkyria Chronicles has two examples: Brigitte "Rosie" Stark used to be a famous bar singer before joining Squad 7. As revealed in Valkyria Chronicles II, after leaving the Militia she goes on to be this trope full time, holding concerts during Gallia's Civil War to try and improve race relations. Edy Nelson wants to be one of these, and has started a one-sided rivalry with Rosie, whom she accuses of "stealing her spotlight". Later, she finds out that she's tone-deaf and decides to become an actress instead. |
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Marlene Dietrich, at least twice, in 1930's Morocco and again in 1948 in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair. And don't forget the flashback scene in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution. "I may never go home anymore..." | |
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Das Boot has French club singer Monique singing to a drunk and cheering German crowd of soldiers at the beginning of the movie. | |
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These ladies are part of the USO stage show in Captain America: The First Avenger. Cap is supposed to be the star of the show, with the singers/dancers just as chorus, but when the show is taken to the European front, Cap gets booed off the stage by the soldiers, who demand to see the girls instead. | |
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Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier. The latter very much so. In one episode, Sheryl was to sing to establish a deal with a Zentradi Marine Regiment. When she collapsed due to being sick, it was used as an excuse for an uprising; however, when Ranka airdropped into a battlezone and started singing, the rebelling Zentradi immediately stopped fighting. As they keep listening, the soldiers steadily progress from gawking, to Luminescent Blushes, to Heart Symbol Wingding Eyes and Nosebleeds. Yes, she's that cute. | |
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Macross is rife with these singers, though their overall aesthetics lean more towards Japanese Idol Singers. Instead of staying at the USO shows, the singers get to change the course of Humongous Mecha battles... by singing. Minmay from the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross (and therefore Robotech). Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier. The latter very much so. In one episode, Sheryl was to sing to establish a deal with a Zentradi Marine Regiment. When she collapsed due to being sick, it was used as an excuse for an uprising; however, when Ranka airdropped into a battlezone and started singing, the rebelling Zentradi immediately stopped fighting. As they keep listening, the soldiers steadily progress from gawking, to Luminescent Blushes, to Heart Symbol Wingding Eyes and Nosebleeds. Yes, she's that cute. Macross 7 plays with this; the singers of Fire Bomber are actually dead center in the middle of the battlefields (vs. the above three, who sing on special stages on the battleships). A combination of pin-point barriers, Improbable Piloting Skills and Hot Blood is what keeps them alive. Also played with in that Basara's singing is hardly effective at all for the first fourth of the series, with most of the military and other characters seeing him as a nuisance and an unneeded distraction. Girl Group Walküre of Macross Delta mixes this with being Sufficiently Advanced Magical Girls. Like Fire Bomber, they perform in the middle of the battlefield, except they don't pilot Humongous Mecha. They do this because their singing is the only thing that can cure Var Syndrome. |
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The X-Files. In "Triangle", Mulder appears to have somehow travelled back in time to World War II on an ocean liner in the Bermuda Triangle, except everyone he knows is part of the crew including Scully as this trope. Though she actually turns out to be a spy. | |
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The "statues" of Mrs Henderson Presents also keep going during air raids. | |
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Midway (2019). Portrayed by jazz singer Annie Trousseau, one is singing at a club attended by Best, his wife, and McClusky. They even have her singing during the credits. | |
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Julia Sugarbaker in Charlene's WWII fantasies in Designing Women. | |
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Lacus Clyne from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED may qualify but she only sings for her friends (who also happen to be soldiers) and actively shuns war. Her "clone" Meer Campbell from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny isn't as squeamish. Lacus and Meer are arguably both deconstructions of this trope, given that the shows explicitly depict their music being used as propaganda to rouse the patriotic fervor of the PLANT populace. Lacus is played a little straighter (and keeps control of her message), though, whereas Meer borders on a subversion of the trope, as the girl accepted to become Lacus's Body Double to be loved by others since "nobody needs Meer" and ultimately had a mental breakdown over losing almost all her self-worth. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, Hamon Crowley fits this trope even before open war breaks between Zeon and the Federation. Her lover Ramba Ral is a soldier and pulls her into schemes like smuggling Zeon Deikun's children to Earth. Federation soldiers are also frequent customers and that results in at least one major brawl. | |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Etta Candy and Pamela Smuthers are both pretty war time singers leading their own musical groups, the Holiday Girls and Pamela and the Peas respectively and they are both fashion conscious and tend to look quite glamorous on stage. | |
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Edna alias Gam-ma from 9 Chickweed Lane sang for German POWs. Her mission was to gather intelligence from the homesick soldiers but she found a pair of soldiers (one from each side) instead. | |
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Grease Live! has the Pink Ladies fill this role during Marty's Fantasy Sequence about becoming The Chanteuse of a USO show. | |
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In the video for "Good to You" by Marianas Trench, Jessica Lee is very much this trope, swaying back and forth on the stage in a red dress. | |
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In Darling Lili, Julie Andrews plays a World War I music hall star (and spy). The film opens at a concert where she keeps up the audience's spirits during an air raid by singing a medley of hits such as "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." | |
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Yellow Belmont from Genesis Climber MOSPEADA (a.k.a. Lancer/Yellow Dancer from Robotech). | |
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On the NCIS episode "Last Man Standing" (Season 6, Episode 1, original airdate September 23, 2008), Ziva David is undercover as a bar singer in a Sexy Backless Outfit and resembles one of these. | |
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Inverted in South Pacific, with Nellie performing "Honey Bun" in an oversized sailor uniform-although this does nothing to take away the wolf-whistles. | |
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Dinosaurs, in the miniseries Nuts to War. When the dinosaurs went to war over pistachios, Charlene, Earl, and Roy (all in dresses) performed for the soldiers, as it was the only way to get to the front lines and bring Robbie home. | |
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In World on Fire, main character Lois Bennett and her best friend Connie Knight are in the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), singing to entertain the British armed forces in World War II. | |
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The manual for the first Wing Commander (Which is set up to look like a newsletter for the crew) stated that a troupe of entertainers, including a particularly famous Glamorous Wartime Singer would be visiting the Tiger's Claw. Despite their expected date of arrival taking place during the events of the game, they don't actually appear. | |
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Le Petit Spirou: Spirou's grandmother apparently was one of these, and performed in Stripperific gear. | |
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Red Hot Riding Hood of Tex Avery's MGM cartoons is a classic example. | |
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There's an unusual version of this in the WWII-themed film version of Richard III (1995). Bet you didn't know Christopher Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd to His Love" made a good swing song... | |
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In The Caine Mutiny, Ensign Keith is dating singer May Wynn of whom his mother does not approve. She breaks it off after he refuses to choose between her and his mother. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Empty Child" has one of these, doubling as The Chanteuse, at a nightclub the Doctor enters. After she's done singing, the Doctor goes on stage to ask the audience a question and inadvertently perform Black Comedy. | |
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Minna from Strike Witches (played by the same voice actress as Lacus) is a variant in that she's actively fighting on the front lines herself. In fact, her singing actually serves a purpose in the war as a means of detecting the Neuroi. The Luminous Witches spinoff has a comparitively straighter take, featuring a whole group of non-combattant Witches working as wartime singers. |
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The JAG episode honouring Bob Hope and the USO cast Catherine Bell as one of these, during The Vietnam War. | |
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Macross 7 plays with this; the singers of Fire Bomber are actually dead center in the middle of the battlefields (vs. the above three, who sing on special stages on the battleships). A combination of pin-point barriers, Improbable Piloting Skills and Hot Blood is what keeps them alive. Also played with in that Basara's singing is hardly effective at all for the first fourth of the series, with most of the military and other characters seeing him as a nuisance and an unneeded distraction. |
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Rick's Cafe has a female singer-guitarist in Casablanca. | |
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Chloe Webb's character on China Beach. The show also featured a performance by Nancy Sinatra, who performed for the troops during the era. | |
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Porco Rosso has Gina, in one of the most touching examples. | |
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Laguna falls for one of these in Final Fantasy VIII. Though at the time she wasn't a singer; she only played the piano. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. In the Two-Part Episode "The Killing Game" the crew have been brainwashed by the Hirogen into thinking they're characters in a holodeck program set in Nazi-occupied France. Ice Queen Seven of Nine is introduced with her blonde hair down, crooning for guests in the nightclub run by Captain Janeway. | |
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Sadie from Across the Universe (2007), in a rather intense performance of "Helter Skelter" with a Vietnam battle going on simultaneously. | |
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