Trudy Gold
Icons and Iconic Moments from the Silver Screen, Part 3
Summary
From Casablanca to Sunset Boulevard, this discussion will revel in some of the glorious lines and moments of Hollywood at its greatest, with a sharp focus on the extraordinary contributions made by the many talented refugees who fled the monstrosity of Nazism–an impressive gallery of directors, producers, musicians, and actors, this was American cinema at its zenith.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
As far as I know, not in Hollywood. There were one or two of them who made a few nasty comments. But the mogul… Look, a lot of people didn’t like the moguls. A lot of the moguls were totally horrible. You know, you can’t say it was antisemitism necessarily. I mean, I would’ve imagined it was very, very difficult to like Jack Warner. They were lot… Or any,… There’s a wonderful story about Louis B. Mayer. When he died, there were so many people at the funeral that they had to transfer it from the synagogue to the church next door, which had more capacity. And the story goes that a young studio executive came up to Sam Goldwyn and said, “He must have been so loved.” And Sam Goldwyn said, “No, give the people what they want "and they come.” And another executive goes up to Jack Warner and he says, “There are so many people, "he must have been so loved.” And Warner said, “No, they came to make sure he was dead.”