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OK, Could not resist. Here are three greats that are hard to track what they did.I loved your phrase, "leading lights." Could this be a reference to the 1929 song "Broadway Melody" first theatrically released by Charles King in the Oscar-winning movie by the same name?
The only surviving golden age entertainer with significant WWII combat experience that I am aware of is Tony Bennett. Yeah... you are so right. The expectations on the greatest generation forged a galvanized character that may only be reproduced in the future by some other set of events that few would relish to witness again.
I will entertain the thought of another nod to the 'shoulders of giants' that sadly few of us remember.
David Niven, Royal Army. If you read what he did and when you will slowly realize he was SAS. There is a true lack of information about what he did yet, his official position was quite normal so it should have been chock full of how he made Lieutenant Colonel. It is only after tying some of what he did and when to released information about the SAS in WW2 that it ties together.
Glenn Ford, US Navy. He was OSS then CIA until he retired. So all the years, as he traveled as an actor, he was working for the CIA.
Julia Child - OSS - that is all. She must have been good.
On a side note. I read about Jack Palance. One Ugly dude. I always knew he had been a boxer but that was not why he was, well, UGLY. Well he was in a bomber that crashed and needed massive facial reconstruction, 1940s era style. Now you know the rest of the story!
Maybe you can work a little Palance into a render. It will be a challenge not to break the graphics card. LOL Awesome actor though.