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Forgotten Hollywood: British Actors in Hollywood’s Golden Age
British actor Clive Brook, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s and became a major silent star for Paramount Pictures, said in 1933, “Hollywood is a chain gang and we lose the will to escape; the links of our chain are forged not of cruelties but luxuries; we are pelted with orchids and roses; we are overpaid and underworked. ” More actors from England have achieved stardom in Hollywood than from any other country.