 When I was breaking into acting, I constantly heard about agents submitting an actor or actress for a part, taking them to the theater for a reading and afterward hearing the producer say, “Terrific.Thank you very much.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.