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JEWISH INFLUENCE IN THE MASS MEDIA (PT. 1)
child star ... was largely the result of one man’s intention.” [HEYMANN, 1995,
p. 36-37] This man was Samuel Marx, a producer at MGM, also Jewish. The director
of the film that catapulted her to fame, National Velvet, was also Jewish:
Fred Zinnemann. Taylor’s agent in her glory years was Jules Goldstone. Her
partner in the Elizabeth Taylor Theatre Company was also Jewish, Zev Bufman.
Marlon Brando? Agent: Jay Kantor. When the future movie star moved to
New York to begin an acting career, he began taking courses at the Jewish-dominated
New York School for Social Research and was subsumed by a Jewish environment.
“I was largely raised by these Jews,” he says, “I lived in a world of
Jews. They were my teachers; they were my employers. They were my friends ...
As well as [Jewish] academics and scholars from Eastern Europe, Jewish girls,
most of whom were more educated, sophisticated and experienced in the ways
of the world than I was, were my teachers in those early days in New York.”
[BRANDO/LINDSEY, 1994, p. 72, 74] Brando’s profoundly influential “method
acting” acting teacher was Jewish, Stella Adler, who he credits with having
enormous influence in his personal life; he even had a “relationship ... off an on,
for many years” with Adler’s daughter Ellen. [BRANDO/LINDSEY, 1994, p. 98-
99] Adler also secured Brando his first important part in a play. [BRANDO/
LINDSEY, 1994, p. 101]
Early in his career, Brando also took an important role in a play called A Flag
Is Born, written by avid Zionist Ben Hecht and directed by Stella Adler’s brother,
Luther: both Jewish. As Brando notes, “it was essentially a piece of political propaganda
advocating the creation of the state of Israel ... Everyone in A Flag Is
Born was Jewish except me ... I did not know then that Jewish terrorists were indiscriminately
killing Arabs and making refugees out of them in order to take
their land ... The play, as well as my friendship with the Adlers, helped make me
a zealous advocate for Israel and later a kind of traveling salesman for it.” Brando
was then further exploited by his Jewish cohorts; he began giving propaganda
speeches for a Zionist organization, The American League for a Free
Palestine. Influenced by Hitler’s mass murder of Jews and the world view of the
many Jews around him, Brando even contributed money himself to the Zionist
Irgun organization, a terrorist group. Noting his avidly pro-Israel political activities,
the movie star wrote to his parents, saying, “I’m really stimulated more
than I’ve ever been.” [BRANDO/LINDSEY, 1994, p. 107-111]
Eventually Brando learned more about Zionism and his politics changed.
“Now,” he said in 1994, “I understand much more about the complexity of the situation
than I did then ... [BRANDO/LINDSEY, 1994, p. 111] ... I sided with
Jewish terrorists without acknowledging that they were killing innocent Palestinians
in their effort to create the state of Israel ... [BRANDO/LINDSEY, 1994,
p. 231] ... One of the strangest government policies is that largely because of the
political influence of Jewish interests, our country has invested billions of dollars
and many American lives to help Israel reclaim land that they say their ancestors
occupied three thousand years ago.” [BRANDO/LINDSEY, 1994, p. 388]
This kind of devotion by non-Jews in the entertainment world to Jewish
causes was echoed by silent screen star Mary Pickford, who was catapulted to
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