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CINEMA’S EXILES: FROM HITLER TO HOLLYWOOD traces the experiences of the Jews who fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in Hollywood, and examines their impact on both the German and the American cinemas.
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Called 'Billie' by his mother, a fan of William Cody, Wilder became a reporter for the yellow press when his father moved his family from rural Galicia to Vienna just before World War I.
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Video Exclusive: Exiles Succeed in Hollywood
Billy Wilder is just one of the more than 800 exiles who journey to Hollywood and succeed in the studio system.
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Billy Wilder is hired by the U.S. Army to document the horror of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II in the film Death Mills.
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