Abie's Irish Rose (1928 film)

Abie's Irish Rose
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Victor Fleming
Produced by	B. P. Schulberg
Written by	Jules Furthman; Julian Johnson, Herman Mankiewicz (titles)
Based on	Abie's Irish Rose; by Anne Nichols
Starring	Charles "Buddy" Rogers ; Nancy Carroll ; Jean Hersholt ; J. Farrell MacDonald
Music by	J. S. Zamecnik
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Edited by	Eda Warren
Production; company	Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	November 3, 1928;
Running time	12 reels (10,471 feet)
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.5 million[1]

Abie's Irish Rose is a 1928 early talking (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt, and J. Farrell MacDonald. It is based on the 1922 play Abie's Irish Rose by Anne Nichols.[2] The film was later remade in 1946.

Premise

A Jewish boy, Abie Levy (Rogers), falls in love with and secretly marries Rosemary Murphy (Carroll), an Irish Catholic girl, but lies to his family, saying that she's Jewish. The fathers of both bride and groom are at first religiously bigoted toward the other but with the birth of twin grandchildren, their antagonism fades.

Cast

Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Abie Levy
Nancy Carroll as Rosemary Murphy
Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy
J. Farrell MacDonald as Patrick Murphy
Bernard Gorcey as Isaac Cohen
Ida Kramer as Mrs. Isaac Cohen
Nick Cogley as Father Whalen
Camillus Pretal as Rabbi Jacob Samuels
Rosa Rosanova as Sarah

Preservation status

Only reels 3-6 and 9-12 survive of this film in a silent incomplete copy. There may also be an incomplete copy of reel 8, unverified. All of the surviving reels of the film are held at The Library of Congress in Washington D.C..[3]

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References

"Biggest Money Pictures". Variety. June 21, 1932. p. 1.
"Abie's Irish Rose". Film Affinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
Abie's Irish Rose at silentera.com database

External links

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[Variety-1] "Biggest Money Pictures". Variety. June 21, 1932. p. 1.

[2] "Abie's Irish Rose". Film Affinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved December 16, 2015.

[3] Abie's Irish Rose at silentera.com database