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During World War II, Huston was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army Signal Corps. His military service involved making documentary films about the military in the Aleutians and in Italy. His final documentary for the Signal Corps, Let There Be Light, narrated by Walter Huston, was about the treatment of "psychoneurotic" combat veterans. The film was made in 1946 but was suppressed by the Army for more than 30 years. Also in 1946 Huston divorced Lesley Black and married actress Evelyn Keyes; they divorced in 1950. After the war, Huston returned to the theater, directing Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit on Broadway.
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Huston worked primarily as a screenwriter throughout the 1930's, and directed his first film in 1941, The Maltese Falcon, based on Dashiell Hammett's novel, which achieved both commercial and artistic success. In 1942, Huston joined Frank Capra's documentary unit of the U.S. Army and made three films which are considered amongst the best war documentaries: Report from Aleutians (1943), The Battle of San Pietro (1944), and Let There Be Light (1946, released in 1980).
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Huston himself was graced with a deep, full, instantly recognizable voice. On occasion he narrated films; he is very much a faceless presence in his three World War II-era documentaries (Report from the Aleutians, The Battle of San Pietro, and Let There Be Light), which he directed while a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. His voice adds a certain stature to each film, as he describes the war's various military campaigns over some sobering, graphically realistic footage or illustrates the plight of deeply troubled returning veterans.
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