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Gentleman's Agreement (11-Nov-1947)
Director: Elia Kazan Writer: Moss Hart From novel: Gentlemen's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson Keywords: Drama, Jewish A publisher hires journalist Philip Green to masquerade as an affluent Jew, and report on the discrimination he receives. In postwar America, "gentleman's agreements" restricted Jewish access to clubs, education, and employment either outright or by use of a quota system. Surprising success at the box office, and influential in the removal of these historic discriminations. Won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress; received nominations for Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Editing.
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CAST REVIEWS Review by John Levin (posted on 24-Sep-2007) It took Daryll Zanuck, a man who was not jewish, to get this sensitive
but hard-hitting film produced in Hollywood. We can only be glad that
he did. There are so many exceptional segments: Gregory Peck pretending
to be jewish, attempts to register at a "restricted" hotel. The
manager, played by Roy Roberts, is letter-perfect as the somewhat
polite manager who eventually loses all patience with the persistent
Peck. The exceptionally talented child actor Dean Stockwell renders all
the pain a boy would feel from the pressure of anti-semitism. Nobody in
the cast is let off the hook. Bigotry is depicted in the most innocuous
attitudes. Finally, there is John Garfield, a jewish actor, to calmly
show how one gets thru the day in a Christian world. An exceptional
effort in a brief progressive period before the iron curtain of HUAC
rang down on all of it.
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