Michael Cieply: ‘Hollywoodland’ And The Jews, A Museum Exhibit We Could Use Right Now
deadline.comIs it too early for a New Year’s wish? Well, I’m going to make one anyway. I wish the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures would hurry up its long-promised Hollywoodland exhibition.
Officially titled Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, the exhibit is intended, finally, to recognize that Jews—especially immigrants among them—did more than a little to establish the movie business in Los Angeles, beginning more than a century ago.
It is scheduled to open on Sunday, May 19, 2024, and is said on the museum’s website to be the institution’s “first and only permanent exhibition.” Many observers thought something like this would be part of the package when the Academy Museum first opened, back in September of 2021.
It would seem impossible to tell the story of the film business without paying special tribute to the thousands of Jewish executives, filmmakers, and stars who helped to build the studios here.
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