A Majority of One is a play by Leonard Spigelgass. The comedy involves Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow from Brooklyn, New York, and Koichi Asano, a millionaire widower from Tokyo. Mrs. Jacoby is sailing to Japan to visit her daughter and foreign service officer son-in-law. 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 the two decide to wed, Mrs. Jacoby's daughter objects to the interracial marriage. American producer and screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass (1908 - 1985) got his start collaborating on the script of Erich Von Stroheims Hello Sister (1933). ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Millionaire (disambiguation). ... Alternate uses: see widow (typesetting). ...   , literally Eastern capital) is a unique subnational administrative region of Japan with characteristics of both a prefecture and a city. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

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. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Dore Schary (born August 31, 1905 in Newark, New Jersey, United States - died July 7, 1980 in New York City) was a stage and motion picture personality. ... Gertrude Berg (born October 3, 1899; died September 14, 1966) was a star of old-time radio and television. ... Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (February 19, 1893 - August 6, 1964) was a British actor. ... Ina Balin (November 12, 1937 - June 20, 1990) was an American actress on Broadway and in film. ...

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)

What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ...

Film version

In 1961 Spigelgass adapted his play for a Warner Bros. film starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Warner Bros. ... Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film, stage actress. ... Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ... Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. ...

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)

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External links

• IBDb entry
• IMDb entry