Cinema's Exiles

Monday and Tuesday this week were unusually good nights for TV. I watched Casablanca again on TCM, and on PBS Monday night watched Cinema's Exiles. It was shown again Tuesday, and I think can be viewed online. It shows a lot of film shots from the 1930's and later. In 1933, Hitler banned all Jewish movie actors and executives from German cinema, as well as Jewish sympathizers in the medium. They had already started fleeing Germany in, even before, 1930. Many of them succeeded in getting to the United States and helped make our film industry great in the 20th century. So many of our great actors, directors and producers have been Jews.