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“He was like the country he lived in...”  “See you, Katie.”  “See you, Hubbell.” Released in 1973, The Way We Were is still the best love story about intermarriage, says Brigit Grant "Loudmouth Jewish girl from New York City comes to Malibu, California, and tells her gorgeous goyishe guy that she’s pregnant.” This chutzpahdik dialogue between Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner in one of many tender and unforgettable scenes in The Way We Were is a perfect synopsis for the finest movie ever made about a mixed marriage of the Jewish kind. Streaming platforms are now brimming with films and series about interracial relationships, but movies about Jews marrying out – think The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch – are mostly confined to the Hallmark channel, waiting to be found. But in 1973, a triumvirate of Jewish producer, writer and director created a film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford that ticked all our boxes, but with a wide enough appeal to make $50 million at the