Kennedy’s movie magic
When he left five years later, he was rich. As the patriarch of what would become ‘America’s royal family’, the man who would later pull the necessary political strings to get his son elected as the first Catholic president of the US proved himself a natural for the film industry in the days between the silent era and the talkies.
“When he first arrived in Hollywood no one knew Joe Kennedy as the man he would become,” writes Cari Beauchamp.
