The film “Gentleman’s Agreement” (1947) tells of a journalist (Gregory Peck) investigating anti-Semitism in the United States. To do more research, he pretends to be Jewish – even though he’s not. (Elia Kazan directed the movie, Laura Z. Hobson wrote the novel.)

  Peck begins by visiting a stronghold of white Protestant privilege: a town in Connecticut. There he’s refused admittance to a hotel – which, the manager tells him, is “restricted.”
 
  Earlier, you saw Peck emerge from a train – and you saw the name of the place:
           
            DARIEN
 
  Gregory Peck then moves farther into frame. And now you see
             
            ARIEN
   
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(This was pointed out by Marc Lapadulla of Yale in a talk on “The Jewish Experience in American Cinema” he gave during One Day University’s program on “A Day of Jewish History” on Feb. 27 in New York City.)