I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I’ve found them to be real smart and good workers.

The remark frames a personal shift in perspective: Lynn contrasts a rural upbringing with limited contact with Jewish people against later professional life in entertainment, where she encountered Jewish colleagues and found them capable and industrious. Read charitably, it is an anecdotal statement about prejudice dissolving through direct experience and collaboration. At the same time, it relies on broad group generalizations (“real smart and good workers”), which can function as a “positive stereotype” that still reduces individuals to ethnic traits. The quote is thus significant both as a snapshot of mid‑20th‑century social distance in parts of the U.S. and as an example of how admiration can coexist with stereotyping.