“The best time in my life was the Great Depression, because the entire country was committed and people were committed to each other. Everyone was trying to help each other'
The other day I spoke with my great old friend Norman Lloyd, and I do mean great and I do mean old. As an actor, Norman’s credentials stretch back to the Federal Theater days of the mid-1930s — he’s the last surviving member of Orson Welles’ legendary 1937 Mercury Theater production ofand he made his Hollywood debut as the villain who falls to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942; Norman always has kept up with the times.
The end of the war also coincided with the outbreak of the devastating influenza pandemic, misleadingly called the Spanish flu. The first surge hit France in January of 1918 and didn’t reach its worldwide peak until that October in a second wave that was far deadlier than the first. The virus, which had avian origins, took far more victims than the war; 500 million people, give or take, were infected, and the death toll was estimated at roughly 50 million, although it was probably far more.
Political fervor fueled much of what went on in the theater world during the Depression, and Norman became a significant part of it at a very green age.
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