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Mary Brian “Won’t you be my war hero?” In April 1917, America decided to take an active part in the armed conflict, in which by now so many countries were taking part in that it was already called 'The Great War' at that time. The reason why I leave aside for now, but the fact remains that about a year and a half later the First World War was over. America became a world power, there was economic growth and there was, despite the prohibition that was introduced in 1922, a feeling of optimism. People liked going to the cinema to laugh at the jokes of Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. They belonged to the first generation of superstars that emerged in the 1920s. Mary Brian  and  Wallace Beery In 1926 enough time had passed to look back at this dramatic Great War in a more light-hearted way. (Okay, admitted that Chapin had no trouble at all making fun of the war even before it was over in his 'Shoulder Arms'). In Behind the Front, from 1926, S