In 1915 Carl Laemmle, a German Jewish immigrant, started making moving pictures at Universal City near Los Angeles, where a film business had begun to sprout far from the patent-enforcing thugs of Thomas Edison, a pioneer of motion-picture technology. In the years that followed, Louis B. Mayer and four brothers of the Warner family, likewise Jewish immigrants, set up their own studios.
Hollywood became the wellspring of arguably America's greatest liberal strength, its soft power. During the 1920s, 30s and 40s it projected a glamorous vision of American life in films such as "Our Dancing Daughters", "It Happened One Night", "Gone with the Wind" and "The Philadelphia Story". That many Jews and other immigrants produced and starred in these films only made Hollywood more American still.
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