Debate this:
Hollywood was essentially founded by Jews.
People can debate the lasting influence of the Jewish founders of Hollywood, but the fact of the Jewish founding of Hollywood is incontrovertible.
-PJ
So, you are going to cherrypick and you deliberately leave out anyone who isn’t Jewish?
You trash the legacy of, say, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin? You believe they are talentless garbage?
Some people are antisemitic, you are Jewish supremacist. You don’t think the accomplishments of anyone who isn’t Jewish should be recognized?
My experience working in Hollywood for most of my adult life is that it’s the tribal rather than the religious affinity that is the determining factor for the Jews who do, in fact, run the place day to day. You hire and partner with who you trust, and that’s family, or tribe more broadly.
Cecil B. DeMille is one of the key figures in the early days of Hollywood. He wasn’t Jewish.
During the 1934 California gubernatorial election Mayer was strongly opposed to the Democratic candidate Upton Sinclair, instead preferring the Republican Frank Merriam. Mayer's MGM and other film studios deducted a days pay from their employees to raise an anti-Sinclair fund that amounted to $500,000. Irving Thalberg was to lead MGM's anti-Sinclair campaign and the studio recruited Carey Wilson to create a series of anti-Sinclair propaganda films. These films, directed by Felix E. Feist, included fake newsreels of Sinclair supporters who were portrayed as bums and criminals. They were shown in Californian movie theaters, with one episode featuring hired actors as Sinclair supporters speaking with foreign accents.
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