Gentleman’s Agreement
Before Gregory Peck appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird as a small-town lawyer battling racial prejudice, he starred in this controversial (for 1947) film about an undercover journalist working to expose antisemitism in the big city. Directed by Elia Kazan, the film is thoughtfully cast with the angelic Dorothy McGuire as Peck’s not so angelic girlfriend (she has her own prejudices), and memorably, John Garfield, who brings real-life pain to the role of a Jewish army vet discovering the country he fought for is in the middle of a different kind of fight. The film, Kazan, and McGuire all won Oscars but the movie’s advocation of tolerance made Joe McCarthy’s HUAC suspicious—both Kazan and Garfield were compelled to testify.
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Illeana Douglas is an actress, writer, director, and also the granddaughter of two-time Academy Award-winning actor Melvyn Douglas. Some of her memorable film roles include Goodfellas, Cape Fear, To Die For, Grace of My Heart, Stir of Echoes, Ghost World and others that did very well in Sweden. Illeana created and starred in the multi-award winning web-series Easy to Assemble for IKEA. She is directing the feature Love Is Funny based on her original script. It’s a comedy, yes. Illeana is the host of Trailblazing Women on Turner Classic Movies. Her memoir, I Blame Dennis Hopper: Stories Lived In And Out Of The Movies, is available now. She hosts the I Blame Dennis Hopper Podcast, available on iTunes and everywhere else podcasts can be streamed and downloaded.