Everyone on the home front was used to making sacrifices, and Hollywood star Linda Darnell (1923 – 1965) was no exception:
"Allowances must be made for Linda Darnell who has been sorely tried. Instead of six servants, she now has two - and she hears strange sounds from the kitchen that convince her she will soon be alone. Her chauffer has been drafted; her butler is working at Lockheed. Her flower gardens are a wreck because the Japs who once tended them are in internment camps... 'Why, this gas rationing... it's worse than being bombed!'"