 We’ll call you.”

After the actor was gone, the agent would ask, “Well, Al, what did you think?”

“Great,” the producer would say, “He was terrific, but he’s too Jewish.”

If you “looked Jewish,” you didn’t get a part and couldn’t make a living.You had to look like Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Paul Muni or Paulette Goddard and change your name.They were Jews, but didn’t “look Jewish” and employed the camouflage of non-Jewish names.