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Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck in a powerful polemic against anti-Semitism in the U.S. (TIME...
Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck and John Garfield in a powerful polemic against anti-Semitism in the U.S. (TIME...
...screenplay follows the novel closely. Gregory Peck is assigned by a magazine to write a series of articles on antiSemitism. To gather material, he decides to pretend to be a Jew for a few months. In a few weeks he suffers shocks that crack up his love affair, and, almost, his personality. But all ends well with him-if not with the world...
...written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through an adroitly banked and graded performance as the intelligent but question-begging heroine...
Novelist Gertrude Atherton, who got herself "rejuvenated" by X ray at 64, still had young ideas as she turned 90 in San Francisco. When jolly Mayor Roger Lapham gave her a gold medal, she poutingly demanded a kiss as well, received a peck on the forehead, both cheeks...