“The House I Live In” is a 1945 American short film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Frank Sinatra. The film was created to promote religious tolerance and unity in post-World War II America. Sinatra, playing himself, steps outside a recording studio for a break and encounters a group of boys chasing another boy due to his religion. He intervenes, delivering a heartfelt speech about equality and the importance of acceptance. The film concludes with Sinatra singing the title song, reinforcing its message of unity. It won an Honorary Academy Award and was later selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for its cultural significance
Credits:
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer: Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Frank Sinatra
Screenplay: Albert Maltz
Cinematography: Robert De Grasse
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Credits:
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer: Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Frank Sinatra
Screenplay: Albert Maltz
Cinematography: Robert De Grasse
#TheHouseILiveIn1945 #FrankSinatra #ClassicHollywood #Tolerance
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00:30Sonata recording, take three.
01:00If you are but a dream, I hope I never will wake up.
01:14It's more than I could dare to find that I'm forsaken.
01:23If you're a fantasy, then I'm content to be in love with lovely you.
01:41And pray my dream comes true.
01:47I long to kiss you, but I would not dare.
01:57I'm so afraid that you may vanish in the air.
02:09So darling, if our romance should break up, I hope I never wake up.
02:25If you are but a dream.
02:37That was a good one, Frankie.
02:50Just give me five minutes and I'll have the other number ready.
02:53I'll get a smoke.
02:54Next number, boys.
02:55Somebody in for a lickin'?
02:56You bet.
02:57We're gonna smear him.
02:58Yeah, but ten against one.
02:59That's not very fair.
03:00Ah, come on.
03:01Come on.
03:02What's it all about?
03:03None of your business.
03:04Scared to tell me?
03:05No, I'm not as scared.
03:06I'll fight you even.
03:07Not if I can help it.
03:17I just want to know why the gang war?
03:18We don't like him.
03:20We don't want him in our neighborhood or going to our school.
03:24I've been living here as long as you.
03:26What's he got?
03:27Smallpox or something?
03:28We don't like his religion.
03:30His religion?
03:31Look, Miss...
03:33Guys, let me know you came off.
03:34Hope you don't know my life.
03:36Look, mister, he's a dirty...
03:38Ah, hold on.
03:40I see what you mean.
03:42You must be a bunch of those Nazi werewolves I've been reading about.
03:45Mister, are you screwy?
03:47Not me, I'm an American.
03:49Well, what do you think we are?
03:51Nazis.
03:52Don't call me a Nazi. My father's a sergeant in the army.
03:55He's been wounded even.
03:57Wounded, huh? Say, I bet he got some of that blood plasma.
04:00He was wounded so bad he had to get it three times.
04:03Son, anybody in your family ever go to the blood bank?
04:05Sure, my mother and my father both.
04:08Uh-huh.
04:09You know what?
04:10I bet you maybe his father's blood helped save your dad's life.
04:14That's bad.
04:15What's bad about it?
04:16Well, don't you see?
04:17Your father doesn't go to the same church as his father does.
04:20That's awful.
04:22Do you think maybe if your father knew about it in time he would rather have died
04:26than to take blood from a man of another religion?
04:29Would you have wanted him to die?
04:31Would your mom want him to die?
04:33No.
04:34Look, fellas. Religion makes no difference.
04:38Except maybe to a Nazi or somebody as stupid.
04:41Why, people all over the world worship God in many different ways.
04:46God created everybody.
04:48He didn't create one people better than another.
04:51Your blood's the same as mine. Mine's the same as his.
04:55Do you know what this wonderful country is made of?
04:58It's made up of a hundred different kinds of people.
05:01And a hundred different ways of talking.
05:03And a hundred different ways of going to church.
05:06But they're all American ways.
05:08Wouldn't we be silly if we went around hating people because they combed their hair different than ours?
05:13Wouldn't we be a lot of dopes?
05:15You're crying.
05:16My dad came from Italy.
05:17But I'm an American.
05:19But should I hate your father because he came from Ireland or France or Russia?
05:23Wouldn't I be a first class fat head?
05:25You guys remember Pearl Harbor?
05:27Why, that Jap socked us so it looked like we could never do anything about it.
05:32But a couple of days later something very important happened.
05:35Close your eyes and let me tell you about it.
05:38Go on, go on.
05:39Close your eyes.
05:40All of you.
05:41I want you to imagine it.
05:42There was a Jap battleship.
05:44The Haruna.
05:45And one of our planes spotted it.
05:47Do you know what a time a battleship?
05:49It takes guts and know-how and teamwork.
05:52And our boys sure needed plenty of it.
05:55Because that Jap was throwing up enough flak to get out and walk home on.
05:58But the pilot had only one thing on his mind.
06:01To get over that ship.
06:03And he did.
06:04And then the bombardier pushed a button and a 500 pound tomato smacked that Jap right in the middle.
06:13Yep.
06:14They sank it.
06:15And every American threw his head back and felt much better.
06:18The pilot of that ship was named Colin Kelly.
06:22An American and a Presbyterian.
06:24And you know who dropped the bombs?
06:26Meyer Levin.
06:27An American and a Jew.
06:29You think maybe they should have called the bombing off because they had different religions?
06:33Think about that, fellas.
06:36You as your good American heads.
06:39Don't let anybody make suckers out of you.
06:41Well, how to go to work?
06:43What do you work?
06:44I sing.
06:45Oh, you're a kid.
06:46Come here.
06:47Now you all stand here.
06:48And no hissing allowed.
06:50What is America to me?
06:51A name, a map, or a flag I see.
06:53A certain word, democracy.
06:57What is America to me?
07:03What is America to me?
07:06Or a flag I see
07:09A certain word
07:12Democracy
07:14What is America
07:20To me
07:22A house I live in
07:30A plot of earth
07:33A street
07:34The grocer and the butcher
07:37And the people
07:39That I meet
07:41The children
07:43In the playground
07:44The faces
07:46That I see
07:49All races
07:51And religions
07:53That's America
07:56To me
07:59The place
08:03I work in
08:04The worker
08:06At my side
08:08The little town
08:11Or city
08:11Where my people
08:13Lived and died
08:16The howdy
08:18And the handshake
08:20The air of feeling free
08:23And the right
08:25To speak my mind out
08:28That's America
08:30That's America
08:30To me
08:32The things I see
08:35About me
08:36The big things
08:38And the small
08:39The little corner newsstand
08:43And the house
08:44A mile tall
08:46The wedding
08:47And the churchyard
08:49The laughter
08:51And the tears
08:52The dream that's been a-growing
08:56For a hundred and fifty years
09:01The town I live in
09:07The street
09:09The house
09:10The room
09:12The pavement of the city
09:16Or a garden
09:18All in bloom
09:20The church
09:22The school
09:23The clubhouse
09:25The million lights
09:27I see
09:29But especially
09:31The people
09:33That's America
09:40America
09:42To me
09:50So long, men
09:56So long, men
09:57So long, so long
09:58So long, so long
09:59So long, so long
10:00Things that need to zwealy
10:04There is almost
10:06AROUND
10:06That is
10:07Well, I've arrived
10:07To me
10:07Well, I've lost
10:08Let's dole
10:09I've tried
10:09To me
10:10It fits
10:10To me
10:11You
10:11It fits
10:13So long, so long
10:15The world
10:15That moves
10:16To me
10:17By the way
10:18To me
10:19And out
10:19I'll travel
10:20To me
10:21I'll travel
10:21You
10:22Have a
10:24To me
10:25I'll travel
10:26Be
10:26I'll travel
10:28I'm
10:28So long, so long
10:29interview
10:30You