My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

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

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.

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.

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.