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In 1919, the movie stars Douglass Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and DW Griffith founded the United Artists studios. Fairbanks (né Ulman) was nominally Jewish and Chaplin was philosemite and antifascist, while Griffith was a Klan sympathizer and vicious antisemite. How did these men work together?

by /u/ZnSaucier in /r/AskHistorians

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