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Simcha Jacobovici
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
Director
Simcha Jacobovici
Composer
Aaron Davis, John Lang
Cast
Neal Gabler, R.H. Thomson, J. Hoberman
Edition 1998
98'
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1998
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Historical, Documentary
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Dialogue:
English
A film about the founders of Hollywood and the image of America they helped to build, about a small group of Jewish immigrants who were to turn a fledgling technical invention - moving pictures - into the most influential art form and most important mass medium of the twentieth century. Based on the fact that the founders of the big film studios - Adolph Zukor (Paramount), Carl Laemmle (Universal), Louis B. Mayer (M.G.M), Harry Colin (Columbia), William Fox and the Warner Brothers - were all either European immigrants or at least the sons of immigrants, the film depicts the lives of these producers, a group of men who first had to find their own identity as Americans, but ended up re-inventing Americe itself.
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Credits
Directors
Simcha Jacobovici
Composers
Aaron Davis, John Lang
Cast
Neal Gabler, R.H. Thomson, J. Hoberman
Director of Photography
Mark Mackay
Editors
Reid Dennison
Producers
Elliott Halpern, Simcha Jacobovici
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
Screenplay based on
"An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood" (Neal Gabler)
Year
1998