Michaela Ullmann, curator of USC's Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, interviewed the veteran actor, director, and TV producer at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. Lloyd recalled his friendships with Lion Feuchtwanger, Hanns Eisler, and other German artists and intellectuals who escaped to Los Angeles during World War II.
In this portion of the interview, he shares what he describes as his "Santa Monica Outlook Story," about the responses of Lion Feuchtwanger and Thomas Mann when vandals paint swastikas on the sidewalks in front of their homes in the Pacific Palisades. In coverage of the incident, the Santa Monica paper for the first time referred to the exiled German intellectuals as "local authors."
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