The House I Live In

The House I Live In is een korte film uit 1945 onder regie van Mervyn LeRoy met in de hoofdrol Frank Sinatra. De film werd in opdracht van de Amerikaanse overheid gemaakt om racisme en antisemitisme tegen te gaan. Omdat de film een product was van de regering bevindt het zich tegenwoordig in het publiek domein. De film won een speciale Oscar en werd in 2007 opgenomen in de National Film Registry.

The House I Live In
Regie	Mervyn LeRoy
Producent	Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy
Scenario	Albert Maltz
Hoofdrollen	Frank Sinatra
Cinematografie	Robert De Grasse
Distributie	RKO Radio Pictures
Première	1945 (VS)
Speelduur	10 minuten
Taal	Engels
Land	Verenigde Staten
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Lied

Aan het einde van de film zingt Sinatra een lied dat later zeer bekend zou worden. Dit lied was speciaal voor de film geschreven door Earl Robinson, die ook campagne-liederen heeft geschreven voor onder anderen Franklin D. Roosevelt en Jesse Jackson.
De tekst van het lied:

What is America to me
A name, a map, or a flag I see
A certain word, democracy
What is America to me

The house I live in
A plot of earth, a street
The grocer and the butcher
Or the people that I meet

The children in the playground
The faces that I see
All races and religions
That is America to me

The place I work in
The worker by my side
The little town the city
Where my people lived and died

The howdy and the handshake
The air a feeling free
And the right to speak your mind out
That is America to me

The things I see about me
The big things and the small
That little corner newsstand
Or the house a mile tall

The wedding and the churchyard
The laughter and the tears
And the dream thats been a growing
For more than two hundred years

The town I live in
The street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city
Or the garden all in bloom

The church the school the clubhouse
The millions lights I see
But especially the people
- yes especially the people
That is America to me

Externe link

• The House I Live In - Gratis op de Internet Archive

Films onder regie van Mervyn LeRoy

No Place to Go (1927) · Flying Romeos (1928) · Harold Teen (1928) · Oh, Kay! (1928) · Naughty Baby (1928) · Hot Stuff (1929) · Broadway Babies (1929) · Little Johnny Jones (1929) · Playing Around (1930) · Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) · Numbered Men (1930) · Top Speed (1930) · Little Caesar (1931) · Gentleman's Fate (1931) · Too Young to Marry (1931) · Broadminded (1931) · Five Star Final (1931) · Local Boy Makes Good (1931) · Tonight or Never (1931) · High Pressure (1932) · The Heart of New York (1932) · Two Seconds (1932) · Big City Blues (1932) · Three on a Match (1932) · I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) · Hard to Handle (1933) · Elmer, the Great (1933) · Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) · Tugboat Annie (1933) · The World Changes (1933) · Hi, Nellie! (1934) · Heat Lightning (1934) · Happiness Ahead (1934) · Sweet Adeline (1934) · Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) · Page Miss Glory (1935) · I Found Stella Parish (1935) · Anthony Adverse (1936) · Three Men on a Horse (1936) · The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) · They Won't Forget (1937) · Fools for Scandal (1938) · The Wizard of Oz (1939) Waterloo Bridge (1940) · Escape (1940) · Blossoms in the Dust (1941) · Unholy Partners (1941) · Johnny Eager (1942) · Random Harvest (1942) · Madame Curie (1943) · Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) · The House I Live In (1945) · Without Reservations (1946) · Homecoming (1948) · Little Women (1949) · Any Number Can Play (1949) · East Side, West Side (1949) · Quo Vadis (1951) · Lovely to Look At (1952) · Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) · Latin Lovers (1953) · Rose Marie (1954) · Strange Lady in Town (1955) · Mister Roberts (1955) · The Bad Seed (1956) · Toward the Unknown (1956) · No Time for Sergeants (1958) · Home Before Dark (1958) · The FBI Story (1959) · Wake Me When It's Over (1960) · The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) · A Majority of One (1961) · Gypsy (1962) · Mary, Mary (1963) · Moment to Moment (1965) · The Green Berets (1968)