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Title
[Cast
of "
Tars
and
Spars
"
movie
,
1945]
Date
1945
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Coast Guard
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Coast Guard--SPARS
Item description
The
cast
of the
Columbia
Pictures
film
version
of "
Tars
and
Spars
"
poses
for a
publicity
photo
in
1945
.
Actor
Sid
Ceaser
is
center
;
Coralee
Burson
Davis
,
one
of a
few
SPARS
from the
traveling
show
cast
in the
movie
,
is
in the
last
row
,
second
from the
right
.
Veteran's name
Davis, Coralee Burson
Veteran's biography
Coralee
"
Coco
"
Burson
Davis
(1921-2016)
of
Pasadena
,
California
,
served
in the
Coast
Guard
SPARs
from
1942
to
1946
and was a
member
of the "
Tars
and
Spars
"
musical
revue
and
movie
cast
.
Coralee
"
Coco
"
Burson
Davis
was
born
in
1921
in
Eagle
Rock
,
California
, and was
raised
in
Pasadena
,
California
. She
graduated
high
school
in
1939
and
went
to
work
at
Lockheed
Aircraft
while
also
performing
in
shows
at the
Pasadena
Playhouse
.
Davis
joined
the
Coast
Guard
Women's
Reserve
, or
SPARs
[from
“Sempar
Paratus—Always
Ready”]
in
fall
1942
and was
sent
to
Hunter
College
,
New
York
, in
February
1943
for
boot
camp
. She was then
sent
to
U.S
.
Coast
Guard
Headquarters
in
Washington
,
where
she
did
clerical
work
for its
transportation
department
. She also
began
giving
recruitment
speeches
to
local
women’s
groups
and
doing
interviews
on a
radio
show
.
Davis
was then
cast
in the
Coast
Guard
revue
"
Tars
and
Spars
and was
sent
to
Palm
Beach
,
Florida
, for
rehearsal
. She
toured
the
country
with the
show
until
1945
. She was then
cast
in the
movie
of the
same
name
, and
spent
the
summer
of
1945
filming
in
Hollywood
. In the
November
1945
she
participated
in
another
version
of the
revue
,
organized
to
sell
victory
bonds
in
Pennsylvania
.
Davis
was
discharged
from the
SPARs
in
March
1946
,
following
the
completion
of her
publicity
activities
for the
movie's
release
in
New
York
.
Following
her
discharge
,
Davis
traveled
between
New
York
City
and
Pasadena
,
primarily
acting
and
modeling
. She
married
Walter
Rathbun
in
spring
of
1948
, and the
two
worked
in a
summer
theatre
group
in
California
.
When
her
husband
died
of
Hodgkin’s
disease
in
1952
,
Davis
moved
back
to
New
York
. In
1954
, she
moved
to
San
Juan
,
Puerto
Rico
,
where
she
met
and
married
Horace
Davis
in
1956
. He was
later
reassigned
to
Washington
,
DC
,
where
they
lived
for
four
years
until
settling
in
Charlottesville
,
Virginia
, in
1963
, and
opening
a
travel
agency
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0222 Coralee Burson Davis Papers
Collection summary
2001
oral
history
interview
,
photographs
,
scrapbook
,
VHS
and
audiotapes
,
ID
bracelet
, "
Tars
&
Spars
"
Program
Finding aid link
http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=769&q=coralee
Rights statement
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Additional rights information
IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0222.6.002
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900812061
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