The House I Live In (1945)

Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Frank Sinatra breaks up a fight between boys who are taunting a Jewish classmate. He then talks to them about the importance of religious tolerance in America.

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What happens

The House I Live In is a ten-minute short film written by Albert Maltz, produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe Award in 1946. In 2007, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is also in the public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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