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

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

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

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.

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.

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