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Mike Medavoy: Shanghailander & Hollywood Producer

Season 1 Episode 1 | 2m 58s

Mike Medavoy’s family was already settled in Shanghai among the Jewish emigrés who had escaped pogroms in Russia during the mid-1900s. This group offered assistance to the waves of refugees fleeing the Nazis during WWII. His boyhood in Shanghai inspired Medavoy — who eventually became a successful and well-known Hollywood movie producer, responsible for some of the most iconic films of our times.

Extras
Hear the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai.
Hear the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai.
Tina Johnson and Michele Heryford share brief historical highlights of Shanghai.
Composed by Hiao-Tsiun Ma and played by his son, Yo-Yo Ma.
Professor Emeritus Irene Eber was an early advisor to the documentary.
Reflections on creating the textured musical score for “Harbor from the Holocaust."
"Méiguì méiguì wǒ ài nǐ" is a song in Mandarin composed by Chen Gexin.
Heather Klein created a one-woman operatic program to honor her grandmother Rosa Ginsberg.
Bert Reiner’s middle-class family was forced to abandon life in Germany for Shanghai.
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