Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 67: Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Released 12 August 2020

For this episode, we watched Gentleman’s Agreement, written by Moss Hart (nominated) from the novel by Laura Z Hobson and directed by Elia Kazan (won) and starring Gregory Peck (nominated), Dorothy McGuire (nominated), John Garfield, Anne Revere (nominated) and Celeste Holm (won). Those wins were the only categories in which it triumphed, although it was also nominated for its editing.

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• https://www.waterstones.com/book/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/reni-eddo-lodge/9781408870587
• Soul Man https://youtu.be/z2zMrjBLwn8
• Black Like Me https://youtu.be/l_LeJfn_qW0

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