New Approaches to American Jews and Movie Making During WWII
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Similarly, a lid was kept on the role of Anatole Litvak in the production of “A Prelude to War”. Isolationism and antisemitism in the U.S. Congress at the time was strong; isolationist senators from Oregon and Connecticut claimed that “A Prelude to War” was none other than personal propaganda being used by President Roosevelt to secure election to a fourth term. Had they known that Litvak, Jewish and a native of Russia, had been involved with production, their reactions might have been even more drastic. This thought process was widely employed by Leo Rosten during his time at the Office of Facts and Figures Motion Picture Division. He put a myriad of non-Jewish newspaper people (rather than film people) in high places in the American film industry, keeping the roles of Jews working in Hollywood under wraps to avoid antisemitic backlash from both elements of the government and of the public.
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