ABSTRACT
Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador in Washington, assured all British artists living in Hollywood that they would be doing a far greater service to their country by remaining where they were and making films that showed off their native land in the best possible light. A Hollywood trade paper reported that the Germans seized a print of the film when they overran Paris and took it back to Berlin after a little redubbing of the narration into German it was released to great acclaim as a sparkling comedy. The lack of armed conflict notwithstanding, the phoney war caused an uneasy stir in the film studios while the front offices tried to determine whether it was good or bad for the Jews of Hollywood. Certainly, Hitler's territorial claims in Europe had long been regarded as bad for profits. His reshuffling of Central Europe in the past ten days is an additional blow to the American companies' foreign film income.
