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THE DONUT DOLLIES

By Norman ANDERSON

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Biography - Completed 2019

In 1968, two best friends joined an elite team and flew into a war zone wearing powder blue dresses. They were Red Cross Donut Dollies. These idealistic young women embraced their mission - to cheer up the GIs in Vietnam - with energy, creativity, compassion and resolve but had no idea what they were getting into. 47 years later, they reunite in Vietnam to retrace their steps; ask why they went; ask whether they made a difference; unlock buried memories and share their stories for the first time.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Director(s)
- Norman ANDERSON
- Cast
- Dorset ANDERSON, Norman ANDERSON, Norman ANDERSON SR., Nancy Caracciolo WARNER
- Synopsis
- During the Vietnam War, a small group of American women volunteered for a Red Cross program that sent them into a war zone with almost no training or preparation. Armed with nothing but snacks, Kool-Aid and home-made entertainment programs, their mission was to be the girl next door, the sister and the shoulder to cry on for hundreds of thousands of American troops. They were "The Donut Dollies" - idealistic young women with no idea what they were getting into, whose lives would never be the same. Amazingly, over 50 years since the first Donut Dollies arrived in Vietnam, many people have still never heard of them. We want to change that.