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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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A Score of Appreciation for Golden Age Film Composer Franz Waxman
If you ask Franz Waxman’s son, John Waxman, to discuss his own life’s work–a library of music for motion pictures, one of the largest in the world– he immediately starts reminiscing about his father and the “Hollywood Sound”. There are very few people who remember this musical heritage–there are very few left who care.
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Franz Waxman led a variety of musical lives as composer, conductor and impresario.
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Video Exclusive: Movie Stars Entertain Troops
The exiles participate in the war effort, including entertaining troops on leave, selling war bonds and becoming air raid wardens.
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©2009 Educational Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.
Major support for this program provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Skirball Foundation, Public Broadcasting Service, The Winston Foundation, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman, The Lemberg Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support for this program provided by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Vital Projects Fund, New Line Cinema, Elaine and Alan G. Weiler, The Karma Foundation, Rosalind P. Walter, S. E. Canning, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Alan Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Arnhold, Leila and Melville Straus, the Feuchtwanger Institute and public television viewers.
