Stage Door Canteen

…classics as Oliver Twist (1922), Stage Door Canteen (1943), and his Academy Award-winning documentary, Kon-Tiki (1951). His profits from Stage Door Canteen were so great that Lesser donated $51.5 million to the American Theatre Wing. He retired at age 36 to embark on a two-year world cruise but became bored…

…Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938), and Stage Door Canteen (1943).