Date: 2025-03-13 12:38 am (UTC)
sovay: (Rotwang)
From: [personal profile] sovay
(Also, they play it pretty lightly, but it did not surprise me at all to look the real-life Kohner up afterwards and learn he was a Czech Jew who was friends with William Wyler and founded the European Relief Fund.)

That entire family is something. His niece was/is Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman, the real-life surf legend who served as the inspiration for her father's Gidget (1957), which original novel—I have never felt impelled to try the by all accounts cutesy-conservative, goyified films—is totally worth reading.
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