That's not (particularly) racist, just stupid UPDATED

well, it’s true that lloyd bridges was a good swimmer, or he played one in hollywood, anyway

NYC Mayor Adams Suggests Illegal Immigrants Become Lifeguards Because They Are 'Excellent Swimmers’

(Just for my own amusement I looked up the actor “John Hott”, who’s given second billing on this poster, and, small world, he must have been a classmate of my father at Yale, class of ‘27. My father never mentioned him, and judging from his bio, not many others did, either.)

UPDATE: While I was at it, I looked up the co-star of this film, Nancy Gates, came across this film in her bio, “Hitler’s Children”. Produced in 1943, so you wouldn’t expect soft music and flowers, but, boy, Casablanca it was not. Absolutely brutal plot that I doubt would be greenlighted today for modern, sensitive audiences that require trigger warnings before Snow White is given a poisoned apple.

Of interest, to me, is that the heroine is sent to a concentration camp to be sterilized by a sadistic Nazi. It was my understanding that our government always denied specific knowledge of what was going on in the concentration camps until the war was almost over, but if it was known in Hollywood in 1943, I suspect that Washington was aware of the evil doings long before that.