HOLLYWOOD V. PREJUDICE
Sometimes accused' of not facing life's realities, film studios are preparing to refute this accusation with, movies treating ant'i-Semitism and racial prejudice, Laura Hobson's novel, "Gentlemen's Agf'eement," which is having a large sale today, has been .bought by 20th CenturyFox. The story" tells what happens to a Gentile wife who poses in normal American society. Gregory Peck and. Dorothy McGuire have been given the leading parts. R.-K.-O. have before the cameras a cross-fire film version of the novel, "The Brick Foxhole,' by Richard Brooks, -which the studio brought over a year ago. The plot handles the problem of anti-Semitism which, in the film, is made the basis for murder. Universal - International have > bought "Lights Out," a novel by Baynard Kendrick about a blind Southern veteran with strong anti-Negro sentiments, who finds that the man in his hospital ward who treats him best is a Negro. Robert Montgomery will star in j and direct the film.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 May 1947, Page 7
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