Well there was a film made about it in 1960, and another in 2006, so your information is false. I remember celebrating Purim as a child in the 1950s.
The 1960 20th Century-Fox film
Esther and the King stars
Joan Collins as Esther and
Richard Egan as Ahasuerus. It was filmed in Italy by director
Raoul Walsh. The 2006 movie
One Night with the Kingchronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, and saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes.
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The 2006 comedy film
For Your Consideration employs a film-within-a-film device in which the fictitious film being produced is titled Home for Purim, and is about a Southern Jewish family's Purim celebration. However, once the film receives Oscar buzz, studio executives feel it is "too Jewish" and force the film to be renamed Home for Thanksgiving.
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