Business as Usual
J. Hoberman: Hitler in Hollywood, 19 December 2013
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-39
by Thomas Doherty.
Columbia, 429 pp., £24, April 2013,978 0 231 16392 7 Show More
by Thomas Doherty.
Columbia, 429 pp., £24, April 2013,
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler
by Ben Urwand.
Harvard, 327 pp., £19.95, August 2013,978 0 674 72474 7 Show More
by Ben Urwand.
Harvard, 327 pp., £19.95, August 2013,
“... 1941 America First rally in Des Moines, maintained that the ‘greatest danger to this country’ lay in Jewish ‘ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government’. In its way, Urwand’s view of Hollywood is just as blinkered. The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, set up in the summer of 1936, is referred to only in ... ”