Julia [1977] Movie Stills

Meryl's commentaires about Walt Disney are completely uninformed.

She alleged that Walt "supported an anti-Semitic industry lobbying group."

The group she's referring to is the Motion Picture Alliance, founded to fight communism in Hollywood. It was founded par a group of 20 - the who's who of Hollywood - and 3 of the founders were Jews : Victor Flemming, Cecil B DeMille, and Ayn Rand, who wrote their publications. Ronald Reagan was a member as well. Walt disowned the group a few years later, and I imagine that's when Victor, Cecil and Ayn left as well.

He hired his first Jewish employee in 1925 -...