Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
- Awards
- 3 wins
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Freddie Chapman
- Boy in Gang
- (uncredited)
Vincent Graeff
- Boy in Gang
- (uncredited)
Teddy Infuhr
- Boy in Gang
- (uncredited)
Harry McKim
- Boy in Gang
- (uncredited)
Ronnie Ralph
- Jewish Boy
- (uncredited)
Merrill Rodin
- Boy in Gang
- (uncredited)
Axel Stordahl
- Axel Stordahl - Orchestra Conductor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Mervyn LeRoy(uncredited)
- Writer
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- TriviaLewis Allen, lyricist for the title song, is the pseudonym of Abel Meeropol (1903-86), best known for the anti-lynching poem and later song "Strange Fruit," made famous by Billie Holiday. He is credited as Lewis Allen because of the blacklist. When he saw the film for the first time, he walked out because the line in his lyric "my neighbors white and black" was not included in the film.
- GoofsWhen Sinatra is talking to the gang, he says the battleship Haruna was bombed a few days after Pearl Harbor. The Haruna was actually sunk, at her moorings, on July 28, 1945.
- Quotes
Frank Sinatra: Look fellas, religion makes no difference, except maybe to a Nazi or somebody as stupid. Why people all over the world worship God in many different ways. God created everybody. He didn't create one people better than another. You're blood's the same as mine. My blood's the same as his. Do you know what this wonderful country is made of? Its made up of a 100 different kind of people - and a 100 different ways of talking - and a 100 different ways of going to church. But, they're all American ways.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
- SoundtracksIf You Are But a Dream
(uncredited)
Written by Moe Jaffe, Jack Fulton, and Nat Bonx
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Featured review
The House I Live In starring Frank Sinatra is still a worthy short in these times
With all that's been happening since a new president was elected and inaugurated, I had to think "Do I live in the same country as the ones who voted for the opponent of my pick?" Still, I'd like to think that we will prevail and start getting along much better eventually despite many disagreements we have about certain things. This short, starring popular singer Frank Sinatra when he was still quite young, has him at the recording studio doing one of his trademark romantic songs before taking a break outside and encountering some kids bullying a particular one because of his religion. So that leads The Voice to lecture them on the dangers of prejudice though he also does mention a story of various creeds defeating the "Japs" (This was filmed either during or not long after World War II). But his message of Tolerance is something still worth talking about and his song "The House I Live In" is certainly still something worth warbling about especially today. With today being the Fourth of July, I just felt like revisiting this particular short to remind myself what America really is about when Frank sings of it: "The right to speak my mind out, that's America to me." Something still worth pondering about in this age of increasing divided opinions among neighbors...
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- tavm
- Jul 4, 2017
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- Runtime11 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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