Word: nepotist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Wyler survived this occupational ordeal to become one of Hollywood's few top directors is due to his perseverance and talent. That he became the exception to Hollywood's rule of nepotism is a minor phenomenon. His mother's cousin, famed Nepotist Carl Laemmle, who liked to staff his movie enterprises with relatives, domestic and foreign, plucked Wyler from his Alsace-Lorraine home shortly after World War I, set him down at Universal. He left the studio...
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