Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres, 1933-1950

Hitler's rise to power caused a stream of emigrates--Germans, Austrians, Czechs, French, Scandinavians, and British--to find themselves temporarily or permanently marooned in Southern California. Hollywood beckoned to Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Jean Renoir. Los Angleses offered a home to writers such as Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery and to composers like Schoenberg and Stravinsky. This book chronicles their struggles to deal with their new environment, Americans, and one another.