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Truth and Lies — the old Hollywood way!
19 Oct 2023

Truth and Lies — the old Hollywood way!

by John Harding | posted in: Hollywood history | 0

The scientific application of propaganda for the shaping of public opinion didn’t begin under European despots like Stalin or Mussolini. It began with a lone American press agent named Edward Bernays, the Vienna-born nephew of Sigmund Freud. Like his famous … Continued

Ben-Hur, Cast Aside, Edward Bernays, Francis X. Bushman, MGM

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