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A Majority of One is a play by Leonard Spigelgass.

Contents

1 Plot
2 Awards and nominations
3 Film version
- 3.1 Awards and nominations
4 External links

Plot

The play is a drama concerning racial prejudice involving Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow from Brooklyn, New York, and Koichi Asano, a millionaire widower from Tokyo. Mrs. Jacoby is sailing to Japan with her daughter and foreign service officer son-in-law who is being posted to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. She still considers the country the enemy responsible for the death of her son during World War II, but her feelings change when she meets Mr. Asano on board the ship. When she advises her family of Mr. Asano's desire to court her, Mrs. Jacoby's daughter, whose loyalty is to her mother rather than her husband, objects to the possibility of an interracial marriage.

The 1959-60 Broadway production was directed by Dore Schary and ran for 3 previews and 556 performances, with Gertrude Berg, Cedric Hardwicke, and Ina Balin.

Awards and nominations

Tony Award for Best Actor in Play (Cedric Hardwicke, nominee)
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Gertrude Berg, winner)
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (Donald Oenslager, winner)
Tony Award for Best Direction (Dore Schary, nominee)
Theatre World Award (Ina Balin, winner)

Film version

Video cover of A Majority Of One (1961)

In 1961 Spigelgass adapted his play for a Warner Bros. film starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Awards and nominations

Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography (Harry Stradling Sr., nominee)
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Mervyn LeRoy, nominee)
Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding (winner)
Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy (winner)
Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy (Rosalind Russell, winner)
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy (Leonard Spigelgass, nominee)

External links

A Majority of One at the Internet Broadway Database
A Majority of One at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (1961–1980)

West Side Story/A Majority of One (1961) The Music Man/That Touch of Mink (1962) Tom Jones (1963) My Fair Lady (1964) The Sound of Music (1965) The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) The Graduate (1967) Oliver! (1968) The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) MASH (1970) Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Cabaret (1972) American Graffiti (1973) The Longest Yard (1974) The Sunshine Boys (1975) A Star Is Born (1976) The Goodbye Girl (1977) Heaven Can Wait (1978) Breaking Away (1979) Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Complete List (1951–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Little Caesar (1931)
Five Star Final (1931)
Tonight or Never (1931)
Two Seconds (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
High Pressure (1932)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Tugboat Annie (1933)
The World Changes (1933)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Escape (1940)
Blossoms in the Dust (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)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
Latin Lovers (1953)
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)
A Majority of One (1961)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Gypsy (1962)

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