Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

The history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age. Tagline: They fled a nightmare to build a dream.

The film portrays Louis B. Mayer (MGM) as an Eastern European Jew who fled to Hollywood to escape persecution. This is totally false. Mayer was born in Russia in 1884 but his family moved to the US when he was 3 years old. When he was 8 years old, the family moved to Canada. Mayer grew up in Canada. In 1904, when he was 20 years old, he moved back to the US. The movie business was an economic opportunity for him. It had nothing to do with him being Jewish or being persecuted.

Jack Warner (Warner Bros.) was also born in Canada. Adolph Zukor (Paramount) was born in Hungary and emigrated to the US in 1891 when he was about 18 years old.

According to this documentary, every "underdog" theme portrayed in a Hollywood film is a Jewish theme. One given example is "Independence Day" - where a white middle-class president articulates the Jewish experience. The Jewish persecution theme running throughout this documentary is overblown and overemphasized, distorting the facts.