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Even film mavens like Friedman can only take so many of these early cinematic attempts. "I've seen hundreds of films nobody should be con- demned to see?' By the 1930s, the screen im- age of the Jew began to alter dramatically. "Jews wanted to blend in," says Friedman. For most of the 30s the Jew as a recognizable cinematic character practically disap- peared from the screen. And, in keeping with the temper of the times, the actors and directors themselves sup- pressed or diminished their own Jewish backgrounds. This "de-Semitization," as film historian Patricia Erens explains it, was most obvious in the phenomenon of name changing. A great stage actor like Julius Garfinkel was transformed via Hollywood into John Garfield. Emanuel Goldenberg became Edward G. Robinson. There's a funny, not-so- funny story, about Garfield. Jack Warner was unhappy with Garfield's new moniker. "What type of name is Gar- field?" he asked Garfield rhetorically. "It doesn't sound American?' Garfield responded: "It was American enough to have been the name of a presi- dent." Warner, still unhappy, sug- gested that John be changed to James. "But that was the president's name!" explained Garfield. "You wouldn't name an actor Abraham Lincoln, would you?" "No, we wouldn't," Warner asnwered, "because Abe is a name most people would say is Jewish and we don't want people to get the wrong idea?' But name changing wasn't limited to actors. Characters in plays or novels that made it to the screen were altered as well. The boxing promoter character in Clifford Odet's play Golden Boy is named Roxie Gottlieb; in the film he's called Roxie Lewis. Sometimes when a movie was remade it lost its Jewishness in the process. "When they made Humores- que (1920), there was a very strong Jewish content," says Brody. "But in the remake 20 years later all Jewish content was lost:' The twists and turns of the image and role of Jews con- tinued apace. "In the '60s ethnicity was important and that trend continued in the '70s," says Friedman. Besides films which had characters who merely happened to be Jewish, those decades also produced films like Bye Bye Braverman, The Producers and The Pawnbroker where the Jewishness of the characters is integral to the plot and theme of the story. It was refreshing, too, to see offbeat Jewish characters like the Jewish vampires in Roman Polanski's version of the Dracula story. themes that Some developed in the past decades have been less than lovely. "Private Benjamin drives me crazy," says Friedman about the Howard Zieff film which updated the image of the By the 1920s, every major studio save one was headed by a Jew. Jewish-American Princess. "Jewish mothers and JAP's have taken a beating," something Ms. magazine editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin is sure to talk about during her Oct. 11 lecture, "From Marjorie Morningstar to Dir- ty Dancing — Jewish Women in American Film." The 1988 Shanik-Fleischer Forum is sponsored in con- junction with the Program in Judaic Studies at the Univer- sity of Michigan and the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. With the exception of the film festival all events are free and open to the public. ❑ •••••I LOCAL NEWS OP Planning Family nips Two family trips have been planned during October by the Oak Park Department of Recreation. The first will be Oct. 8 to the Spicer Orchards farm market and cider mill. The fee includes bus transporta- tion, leaving the Oak Park Community Center at noon. The Upland Hills farm will be the destination Oct. 15, with the bus leaving the com- munity center at noon. There is a charge for both events. For information, call the recreation department, 545-6400. . Used Book Sale The Friends of the Hun- tington Woods Library will have a used book sale on Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the basement of the Huntington Woods Library, 26415 Scotia. Cs,