Frank Morgan (1890-1949), as the non-Aryan [i.e., Jewish] scientist Professor Viktor Roth; as the 1940 Hollywood movie opens, it is January 30, 1933, the professor's 60th birthday; by coincidence, the radio announcement comes through that Adolf Hitler has been elected chancellor of Germany; but Professor Viktor Roth is wary of Hitler and the Nazis; you know from the outset of this 1940 Hollywood movie that Professor Viktor Roth is not going to survive the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power in Germany; the thing about this 1940 MGM movie that I found most peculiar is the use of the term "non-Aryan" instead of the obvious term "Jew"; I have no idea how American moviegoers in 1940 reacted to the use of the term "non-Aryan" in the movie; however, the use of the term "non-Aryan" in the 1940 movie does accentuate the Nazi doctrine of racial purity for the so-called Aryan race in Germany; according to Alexis Pogorelskin, Louis Mayer, the head of MGM, himself a Jew, imposed this peculiar term on the 1940 MGM movie The Mortal Storm; but the use of this roundabout peculiar term in a movie that clearly was not designed to please the Nazi propaganda department in Germany strikes me today as positively quaint!
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For further information about Louis Mayer, see the Wikipedia entry on "Louis B. Mayer":
Irene Rich (1891-1988), as Mrs. Amilie Roth, the Aryan wife of the non-Aryan Professor Viktor Roth and mother of Freya Roth and young Rudi Roth as well as Otto von Rohn and Erich von Rohn, the Aryan Nazi stepsons of the non-Aryan Professor Viktor Roth.
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Gene Reynolds (1923-2020), as young Rudi Roth, the young son of the non-Aryan Professor Viktor Roth.
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Maria Ouspenskaya (1876-1949), as the Aryan Mrs. Hilda Breitner, the mother of the Aryan pacificist Martin Breitner.
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