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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 (Hardcover, New)
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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full
meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous
and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary
Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas
Doherty reclaims forgotten films, such as Hitler's Reign of Terror
(1934), a pioneering anti-Nazi docudrama by Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jr.; I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany (1936), a sensational true
tale of "a Hollywood girl in Naziland!"; and Professor Mamlock
(1938), an anti-Nazi film made by German refugees living in the
Soviet Union. Doherty also recounts how the disproportionately
Jewish backgrounds of the executives of the studios and the workers
on the payroll shaded reactions to what was never simply a business
decision. As Europe hurtled toward war, a proxy battle waged in
Hollywood over how to conduct business with the Nazis, how to cover
Hitler and his victims in the newsreels, and whether to address or
ignore Nazism in Hollywood feature films. Should Hollywood lie low,
or stand tall and sound the alarm? Doherty's history features a
cast of charismatic personalities: Carl Laemmle, the German Jewish
founder of Universal Pictures, whose production of All Quiet on the
Western Front (1930) enraged the nascent Nazi movement; Georg
Gyssling, the Nazi consul in Los Angeles, who read the Hollywood
trade press as avidly as any studio mogul; Vittorio Mussolini, son
of the fascist dictator and aspiring motion picture impresario;
Leni Riefenstahl, the Valkyrie goddess of the Third Reich who came
to America to peddle distribution rights for Olympia (1938);
screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Dorothy Parker, founders of
the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League; and Harry and Jack Warner of Warner
Bros., who yoked anti-Nazism to patriotic Americanism and finally
broke the embargo against anti-Nazi cinema with Confessions of a
Nazi Spy (1939).
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