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Abstract This chapter examines the Academy Award-winning 1947 film Gentleman’s Agreement, analyzing its paradoxical approach to combating antisemitism while largely avoiding Jewish characters, culture, and religion. Based on a novel by Laura Z. Hobson, the film follows non-Jewish reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck) as he pretends to be Jewish to experience antisemitism firsthand, thereby centering the Gentile perspective of prejudice. This chapter’s analysis situates the film within the broader 1940s American culture of anti-antisemitism, demonstrating how producer Darryl Zanuck, director Elia Kazan, and screenwriter Moss Hart carefully balanced social messaging with commercial entertainment. Through extensive archival research, including studio correspondence, this chapter reveals how filmmakers prioritized the romance between Phil and Kathy Lacey over deeper engagement with Jewish identity, believing this approach would appeal to wider audiences. While contemporary reviewers praised the film as evidence of Hollywood’s moral potential and contribution to postwar democracy, critics noted its failure to showcase Jewish culture or address the “inner anxieties of persecuted races.” This chapter argues that Gentleman’s Agreement succeeded in exposing “genteel antisemitism” to mainstream audiences but ultimately reinforced the marginalization of Jewish specificity in favor of universal liberal messaging about tolerance and good citizenship.