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Wartime Hollywood

Wartime Hollywood. Tannaysha Graves April 25 2014. Warner Bros. becomes the first studio to shut down its German distribution office to protest the Nazi’s anti-Semitic policies . 1934.

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Wartime Hollywood

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  1. Wartime Hollywood Tannaysha Graves April 25 2014

  2. Warner Bros. becomes the first studio to shut down its German distribution office to protest the Nazi’s anti-Semitic policies 1934

  3. Studio executives, with the exception of Walt Disney, refuse to meet with German filmmaker LeniRiefensthl. Warner Bros. Goes ahead with the production of Confession of a Nazi Spy, even though Germany accounts for 30 percent of Hollywood’s foreign profits 1938

  4. A Senate subcommittee launches an investigation of weather Hollywood was producing flims to involve the United States in WW2. Bette Davis became the first woman president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. On December 8, the United States enter WW2 , a day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor. 1941

  5. A Senate subcommittee investigating Hollywood’s purported efforts to involve the country in WW2 is dissolved. • The Treasury Department begins to censor films imports and exports. Nelson Poyter to the Office of War Information Motion Picture Bureau says that Hollywood’s guiding principle should be “ Will this picture help to win the war?” 1942

  6. 1943

  7. 1944

  8. 1945

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