I CLOSE-UP I N (1% rt N o SHERWOOD CLEARANCE CENTER Lights! Camera! War! Continued from preceding page films, Gomez says. "In fact, they were hostile. They were afraid if anyone brought up the issue it would backfire and there would be more an- ti-Semitism." Gentleman's Agreement V AV O O DAYS OFF ONLY SAT. & SUN. 8r_ MORE DEC. 16 & 17 THIS SAT. & SUN. SECTIONALS DINETTE SETS Speaker Traces History TAKE AN SOFAS - TABLES Of Jews In The Cinema ADD'L The first "talkie" also was DINING ROOMS ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM about a Jewish subject. The Jazz Singer is the story of a FINE DESIGNER young Jewish man struggl- lancy had a kosher ing between modern life and wedding. Abie had an FURNITURE AT the traditions of his parents, OFF Irish Rose. And the deciding "whether to take Cohens and the Kelleys up instead of Kol Nidre OUTSTANDING SAVINGS went traveling together to services," Friedman said. Paris, Africa and was a first, but producer Samuel Goldwyn in the ear- ly 1940s had considered a similar project. The vehicle for his film was to be the novel Earth and High Heaven,the story of a well-to-do Canadian Protestant girl and a poor Jewish lawyer who want to wed. The girl's anti-Semitic 20% ;14 father will have none of it. "I believe it's a great love story," Goldwyn said to his son. "And as for the conflict over the Jewish question, it's something that has never been done before and that's a contribution I want to make for the screen." Goldwyn never got around to making Earth and High Heaven, but he never forgot about it, author Scott Berg says in his biography of the producer. 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From the 1903 production Levy and Cohen, the Irish Comedians to the 1988 Crossing Delancy, movies have been filled with images of Jews carefully considered by Jews and non-Jews alike, Friedman said. "Some movie goers may never in their daily lives have met a Jew. But they will encounter hundreds and hundreds of Jews on the movie screen. America came to know its Jews through film," he said. In the early days of the cinema, Jews were por- trayed exotically, Friedman said. Film makers made hundreds of features about Jews. Although the early 1930s saw numerous Irish-Jewish comedies, Hollywood vir- tually ignored Jews throughout most of the decade. Friedman cited The Life of Emile Zola, in which Alfred Dreyfuss is never identified as Jewish. In the 1940s, Hollywood parallelled real life as it pro- duced numerous films about Jewish assimilation s Later in the decade, pro- ducers for the first time made movies addressing an- ti-Semitism in America. These included Cross Fire and Gentleman's Agreement. The latter was "one of the first films that showed how difficult it is to be a Jew in America," Friedman said. Gentleman's Agreement tells the story of a gentile who assumes the identity of a Jew to experience anti- Semitism firsthand. After seeing the movie, one viewer told producer Moss Hart he had learned a valuable lesson. "Now I know you have to be nice to Jews," he said. "You never know when they could turn out to be gen- tiles." Friedman said films of the 1950s often had Jewish characters, though these were played by non-Jewish actors. The exception was the series about "Molly Goldberg," which was "a virtual compendium of good- natured Jewish stereotypes." The lead character was plump and cheerful —the typical image