The Keys of the Kingdom

…then made the big-budget epic The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), which was adapted from the A.J. Cronin novel about a missionary’s event-filled life. Although overlong and perhaps too earnest, the drama was one of the year’s big hits, and it launched Gregory Peck to stardom; for his performance as…

…The Moon Is Down (1943), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). During the 1950s he started to direct as well as to write and produced The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), and The Angel Wore…

…an idealistic missionary priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), and three years later he received a second Oscar nomination for his interpretation of a journalist who poses as a Jew in order to expose anti-Semitism in Gentleman’s Agreement (1947). Peck’s other notable films from this decade include The…