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Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

Year:

1998

Duration:

98 min | Argentina:98 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Genres:

Documentary | History

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Simcha Jacobovici

Details

Country: Canada

Release Date: 1998-03-22

Cast

Actor

Character

Neal Gabler

Himself

J. Hoberman

Himself

Arthur Tracy

Himself

Bernard Avishai

Himself

Hasia Diner

Herself (as Prof. Hasia Diner)

Thomas Cripps

Himself

Richard Kozarski

Himself

Judith Balaban

Herself

Cass Warner

Herself (as Cass Warner Sperling)

Robert Rosen

Himself (as Prof. Robert Rosen)

Bob Thomas

Himself

A.C. Lyles

Himself

Aljean Harmetz

Herself

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Himself

Les Friedman

Himself (as Prof. Les Friedman)

Irene Mayer Holt

Herself

Daniel Selznick

Himself

Adolph Zukor

Himself (archive footage)

Betty Lasky

Herself

Betty Warner Sheinbaum

Herself

Jim Zukor

Himself

Stephen J. Whitfield

Himself

Edward Dmytryk

Himself

Abraham Polonsky

Himself (as Abraham L. Polonsky)

Walter Bernstein

Himself

Bruce Cohn Curtis

Himself

R.H. Thomson

Narrator

Barney Balaban

Himself (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

Himself (archive footage)

Jack Benny

Himself (archive footage)

James Cagney

Himself (archive footage)

Eddie Cantor

Himself (archive footage)

Harry Cohn

Himself (archive footage)

Melvyn Douglas

Himself (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Himself (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Himself (archive footage)

William Fox

Himself (archive footage)

Clark Gable

Himself (archive footage)

Helen Gahagan

Herself (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

Herself (archive footage)

John Garfield

Himself (archive footage)

Judy Garland

Herself (archive footage)

John Gilbert

Himself (archive footage)

Samuel Goldwyn

Himself (archive footage)

Will H. Hays

Himself (archive footage)

George Jessel

Himself (archive footage)

Eric Johnston

Himself (archive footage)

Joseph P. Kennedy

Himself (archive footage)

Carl Laemmle

Himself (archive footage)

Jesse L. Lasky

Himself (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

Herself (archive footage)

Aline MacMahon

Herself (archive footage)

Louis B. Mayer

Himself (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

Herself (archive footage)

Robert Montgomery

Himself (archive footage)

Paul Muni

Himself (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Himself (archive footage)

William Powell

Himself (archive footage)

Claude Rains

Himself (archive footage)

John Rankin

Himself (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson

Himself (archive footage)

Mickey Rooney

Himself (archive footage)

Rosalind Russell

Herself (archive footage)

Norma Shearer

Herself (archive footage)

Fulton J. Sheen

Himself (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra

Himself (archive footage)

James Stewart

Himself (archive footage)

Robert Taylor

Himself (archive footage)

Irving Thalberg

Himself (archive footage)

J. Parnell Thomas

Himself (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Himself (archive footage)

Dalton Trumbo

Himself (archive footage)

Harry M. Warner

Himself (archive footage)

John Wayne

Himself (archive footage)

Clifford Worth

Himself (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Himself (archive footage)

Goofs

The film gives a montage of clips from films made by Hollywood to bolster American war efforts in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Included is Sands of Iwo Jima, which was not made until 1949, four years after the war had already ended.