Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the appearance of "Crossfire" a few months age, Hollywood carefully avoided the subject of anti-semitism. "Crossfire" was a story of violence and hate that was hardly close to the experience of most movie audiences. "Gentleman's Agreement," the second outspoken attack on anti-semitism, shows the thing in almost every one of its usual forms: The hero, who for a few months pretends to be a Jew, discovers it in his finance as well as in a hotel manager, and in Jews themselves as well as in Christians...
Aside from the treatment of its main theme, "Gentleman's Agreement" is one of the few pictures that contains an intelligent and realistic portrayal of the well-to-do semi-literary people who inhabit New York. Gregory Peek, John Garfield, Dorothy McGurie, and Celeste Holm are always completely aware of what is in the characters they are pretending to be. Perhaps they are a little too sensitive to the picture's peculiar brand of hate, but to them it is a casual frequenter of homes and business offices rather than a satanie mouster...
During 1947, cinemaddicts watched him as a gentle back-country father in The Yearling, as a lady-killing hunter in The Macomber Affair, as Lascivious Lewt in Duel in the Sun, and as the crusading journalist in Gentleman's Agreement-performances which established him as an actor of solidity and range...
...moved up into a secure place on the list of the nation's top ten box-office draws. He can count on 5,000 fan letters a week. He has been respectfully mentioned four times as a candidate for the Academy Award; his performance in Gentleman's Agreement makes him a red-hot contender for the 1947 Oscar...
...Gentleman's Agreement. A slick argument against antiSemitism; with Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck (TIME...