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Hollywood, High Society, and the Limits of Polite Protest Introduction: From Courage to Silence by Mark M. Bello When *Gentleman’s Agreement* premiered in 1947, it seemed like a turning point. A major studio film—helmed by Elia Kazan, produced by Darryl Zanuck, and starring Gregory Peck—had taken aim at polite, coded anti-Semitism in America’s high society. […]
