Template:Did you know nominations/Judgment at Nuremberg (Playhouse 90)

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 22:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Judgment at Nuremberg (Playhouse 90)

  • ... that Claude Rains' reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas company sponsor? Source: Here at pp. 11-12: "One of the sponsors, American Gas, Inc., had sent a memo demanding that we delete any mention of gas. ... Hill and the cast refused, so that when the climactic moment came..Claude Rains says to Paul Lukas, the German judge, '... But how can you expect me to forgive sending millions to gas ovens?' American Gas took matters into their own hands: they had an executive at CBS pump out the words 'gas ovens' so that Claude Rains mouthed the words but no sound came out.
    • ALT1:... that a reference to "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of the Holocaust drama Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas company sponsor? Source: Same as main hook.

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:42, 1 October 2020 (UTC).

  • New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. ALT0 is most hooky; hook ref verified and cited inline. QPQ done. ALT0 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 21:22, 6 October 2020 (UTC)