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 
Read more »
No comments:
Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)

Featured Story

Mrs Elswood pickles exceedingly good cucumbers

When Premium Foods, who bought the Mr Kipling brand when they acquired Rank Hovis McDougall, they kept the phrase “Mr Kipling bakes exceedin...

  • 606
    Jordan Kutzik in the Jewish Daily Forward, November 2015, told us of a discovery of early klezmer music that had “lain in the EMI Music Arch...
  • Part 2 Mazel begins brightly and turns dark
    Mazel and Brocha, Good Mazel, and Bad Mazel It seems that Mazal and Bracha is the traditional phrase used by the diamond industry when clos...
  • The Chinese General and the Irish VC
    Sometimes stories are so odd that you cannot believe them to be true – and yet they are. Let's start with Morris Cohen Morris Abraham...