Juan Monroy — Wartime Hollywood

World War II
- Japan and Germany isolated their economies and cut off ties to the US (1938)
- Germany invades Poland (1939)
Good Neighbors
- decline in European film market
- opening of South American market
  - That Night in Rio (1941)
  - Life of Simon Bolivar (1941)
  - They Met in Argentina (1941)
Interventionists
- Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
  - Left-leaning Jews
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
Isolationists
- Joseph Breen advocated apolitical entertainment movies
- Burton Wheeler (Mont.) and Gerald Nye (N.D.)
  - America First Committee
  - driven partly by anti-semitism
  - Hollywood has become a propaganda machine
- MPPDA countered with Wendell Willkie
- isolationism ended with Pearl Harbor bombing
Wartime Filmmaking
- support for the war and for patriotism
- Bureau of Motion Picture Affairs
  - reminded audiences what was at stake
  - make clear the fight against “evil”
  - celebrate Allies