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 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.

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  • 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 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 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.
  • 1000 Meilen bis Yokohama ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Mervyn LeRoy aus dem Jahr 1961. Das Drehbuch basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Bühnenstück des Drehbuchautors Leonard Spigelgass. In Deutschland hatte der Film am 10. Juni 1984 im Fernsehen seine Premiere.
  • Il molto onorevole ministro è un film del 1961 diretto da Mervyn LeRoy.
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  • 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 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.
  • 1000 Meilen bis Yokohama ist eine US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Mervyn LeRoy aus dem Jahr 1961. Das Drehbuch basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Bühnenstück des Drehbuchautors Leonard Spigelgass. In Deutschland hatte der Film am 10. Juni 1984 im Fernsehen seine Premiere.
  • Il molto onorevole ministro è un film del 1961 diretto da Mervyn LeRoy.
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  • A Majority of One
  • 1000 Meilen bis Yokohama
  • Il molto onorevole ministro
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