But it is disconcerting if not appalling to learn that throughout the 1930s, some major Hollywood studios, despite being heavily populated by Jews and popularly identified with them, continued to distribute their movies in Germany and even pandered to the Nazi regime
If the American movie industry had been less craven in the 1930s, a few well-made features might have exposed the horrors of the Nazi regime and averted the catastrophe of the Second World War. Imagine a 1937 version of Casablanca with Paul Henreid’s character or even Ingrid Bergman’s on the run from Dachau, branded with a yellow star. But although producers make their own movies, they do not make them as they please. Hardly ‘willing executioners’, even the most pusillanimous moguls were seeking to protect their stockholders’ profits and their own politically vulnerable flanks. The 1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into Hollywood inspired Dorothy Parker to remark that ‘the only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.’ To which we might add that, then as now, the only line the movie studios ever drew was the bottom one.
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If the American movie industry had been less craven in the 1930s, a few well-made features might have exposed the horrors of the Nazi regime and averted the catastrophe of the Second World War. Imagine a 1937 version of Casablanca with Paul Henreid’s character or even Ingrid Bergman’s on the run from Dachau, branded with a yellow star. But although producers make their own movies, they do not make them as they please. Hardly ‘willing executioners’, even the most pusillanimous moguls were seeking to protect their stockholders’ profits and their own politically vulnerable flanks. The 1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into Hollywood inspired Dorothy Parker to remark that ‘the only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.’ To which we might add that, then as now, the only line the movie studios ever drew was the bottom one.
Source
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/j-hoberman/business-as-usual
sourced on 12th December 2013
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