#escape 1940

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Veidt in Hollywood: The 1940s, Part I

In the spring of 1940, Conrad Veidt and his wife Lily traveled from England to America to promote and distribute his new film with Powell an

Part one of a series I'm working on about Conrad Veidt's work in Hollywood between 1940 - 1943.

The first installment covers the reasons for his return to the US film industry after working in Great Britain for nearly a decade, and the 1940 Mervyn LeRoy thriller, Escape.