Max Bacon - Jewface?


We have had much misguided talk about Jewface, where the addition of a prosthetic nose for Bradley Cooper has sent the usual suspects into a frenzy. Thank goodness that in a recent article about Julian Rose in the JC the record was put straight, but it is not the full story.

 There was a very English purveyor of what might be called the “Hebrew Actor,” who was at his peak was much better known and much better loved than Rose, but now seems to have been completely forgotten. Max Bacon 
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