# The House I Live In

Advocacy film commissioned by the civil rights organization to discourage ethnic and racial prejudice at the end of World War II. Frank Sinatra, apparently playing himself, takes a "smoke" break from a recording session. He sees more than 10 boys chasing a Jewish boy and intervenes, first with dialogue; then with a little speech. His main points are that we are "all" Americans and that one American's blood is as good as another, and all our religions are equally to be respected. Sinatra sings two songs : "If you are but a dream" (words and music by Moe Jaffe, Jack Fulton, Nat Bonx; melody based on Anton Rubinstein's "Romance in E flat, Op. 44, No. 1," popularly known as "Rubenstein's Romance") and "The house I live in" (music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allan) (pseudonym for Abel Meeropol). (Paraphrased from J. Fred MacDonald and Associates film inventory, as transcribed by Library of Congress.) https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00009167/ (accessed July 10, 2023). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_I_Live_In_(1945_film) (accessed July 10, 2023).

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1945
- By: RKO Radio Pictures
- Genres: War, Children's, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200500_The_House_I_Live_In)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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