Everything about The House I Live In totally explained
The House I Live In (
1945) is a ten-minute
short film written by
Albert Maltz and made by producer
Frank Ross and
Mervyn LeRoy, and actor
Frank Sinatra to oppose
anti-Semitism and
racial prejudice at the end of
World War II. It received an
Honorary Academy Award and a special
Golden Globe award in
1946.
In 2007, this film was selected for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry by the
Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Title song
In the film, Sinatra sings the title song, and his recording became a national hit. The lyrics
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) were written in 1943 by
Abel Meeropol under the pen name Lewis Allen. Meeropol later adopted Michael and Robert, the two orphaned sons of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after the 1953 execution of the couple. Meeropol was enraged that in the film, the second verse was cut.
The music was written by
Earl Robinson. Robinson was later blacklisted during the
McCarthy era. He also wrote campaign songs for the presidential campaigns of
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Henry Wallace, and, in 1984,
Jesse Jackson.
The song was memorably covered in later years by
Paul Robeson,
Mahalia Jackson, and
Josh White. Sinatra continued to include it in his repertory, performing it in the
Nixon White House and at the 1985 inaugural ceremonies of
Ronald Reagan.
Bill Cosby used a recording to open some of his shows in 2002.
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