At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.