When Jews Ran Hollywood: Vaudeville, Immigrants, and the American Dream

westphilly4life1992
Published on Dec 6, 2024
Want to understand why some people say that Jews run Hollywood? When you look into the history of the silver screen you’ll learn that, in fact, many Jews were involved in starting major film studios including MGM, Universal and Paramount. Today these companies are owned by huge and diverse corporations. The history of why Jews were involved in Hollywood’s humble beginnings starts with Vaudeville and the garment industry.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:32 Jews in Vaudeville
01:03 Jews in the garment industry
01:20 Salesmanship
01:51 Popularity of motion pictures among the working class
02:32 Assimilation among Jewish studio owners
03:55 Invention of homogeneous white American cultural identity
04:38 Studios shift to corporations
05:15 Jews left their mark on Hollywood

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Image and footage credits:
- AP
- British Pathe
- C-SPAN
- Flicker/Rogelio A. Galaviz C.
- Library of Congress

Film clips from the following films and TV shows:
- A Beast at Bay (1912)
- Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens
- Boys Town (1938)
- Casablanca
- Cleopatra (1963)
- David Harum (1915)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- Father’s Little Dividend
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- Hidden Figures
- How the West Was Won
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Modern Times
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Orange is the New Black
- Pose
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Superman (1978)
- The Bells of St. Mary’s
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Dreyfus Affair (1899)
- The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
- The Jazz Singer (1927)
- The Little Colonel
- The Playhouse
- The Sound of Music
- The Wizard of Oz
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- West Side Story
- Young Mr. Lincoln

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