"[1] The paradox is that the American film industry, ...was founded and for more than thirty years operated by Eastern European Jews...
With David Sarnoff, a Russian Jew who founded RKO, these were the five major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Hollywood saw its share of the influx during those years, including talent like Billy Wilder, Hedy Lamarr, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid, Sam Spiegel, and Vicki Baum, all of whom fled Austria.
[11] During World War II, Hollywood shied away from discussing the Holocaust in film, with the exception of 1940s The Great Dictator.
The fact that the audience readily responded to the joke bespoke of the general knowledge of the preponderance of Jews in the film industry, as compared to their percentage of the U.S. population as a whole.
[12] When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in 2021, there was some disappointment that there was no exhibit highlighting the efforts and effects that Jewish people had in creating and building the film industry.
In the film a reporter, played by Gregory Peck, decides to write a story on the subject, by posing as a Jew himself to gain first-hand experience.
[6] Some sources say that the film was pushed by studio head, Darryl Zanuck, after he was refused admission to the Los Angeles Country Club, due to the incorrect assumption that he was Jewish.
[14] Others who changed their ethnic-sounding names included Betty Joan Perske (Lauren Bacall) and Bernard Schwarz (Tony Curtis).
[15] A 2021 poll by Morning Consult showed that nearly half of all QAnon followers believe in the conspiracy theory that Jewish people are plotting global domination.
QAnon followers believe that the "Hollywood elite" and members of the Democratic Party are involved in a secret global cabal of Satanic cannibalistic pedophiles.