Gentleman's Agreement

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Gentleman's Agreement (11-Nov-1947)

From novel: Gentlemen's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Albert Dekker Actor 20-Dec-1905 5-May-1968 The Wild Bunch

John Garfield Actor 4-Mar-1913 21-May-1952 Gentleman's Agreement

June Havoc Actor 8-Nov-1916 Gentleman's Agreement

Celeste Holm Actor 29-Apr-1919 Gentleman's Agreement

Sam Jaffe Actor 10-Mar-1891 24-Mar-1984 Gunga Din

Dorothy McGuire Actor 14-Jun-1916 13-Sep-2001 A Summer Place

Gregory Peck Actor 5-Apr-1916 12-Jun-2003 To Kill A Mockingbird

Anne Revere Actor 25-Jun-1903 18-Dec-1990 National Velvet

Dean Stockwell Actor 5-Mar-1936 Blue Velvet

Jane Wyatt Actor 12-Aug-1910 20-Oct-2006 Father Knows Best

CAST

Gregory Peck ... Philip Schuyler Green
Dorothy McGuire ... Kathy Lacey
John Garfield ... Dave Goldman
Celeste Holm ... Anne Dettrey
Anne Revere ... Mrs. Green
June Havoc ... Elaine Wales
Albert Dekker ... John Minify
Jane Wyatt ... Jane
Dean Stockwell ... Tommy Green
Nicholas Joy ... Dr. Craigie
Sam Jaffe ... Prof. Fred Lieberman
Harold Vermilyea ... Lou Jordan
Ransom M. Sherman ... Bill Payson

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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