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 dates	November 3, 1928 (1928-11-03)
Running time	12 reels (10,471 feet)
Country	USA
Language	English

Abie's Irish Rose is a 1928 early talking (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming, based on the play Abie's Irish Rose by Anne Nichols.^[1] The film was later remade in 1946.

Plot

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..^[2]

References

↑ "Abie's Irish Rose". Film Affinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
↑ Abie's Irish Rose at silentera.com database

External links

Films directed by Victor Fleming

When the Clouds Roll by (1919)
The Mollycoddle (1920)
Mama's Affair (1921)
Woman's Place (1921)
The Lane That Had No Turning (1922)
Red Hot Romance (1922)
Anna Ascends (1922)
Dark Secrets (1923)
Law of the Lawless (1923)
To the Last Man (1923)
The Call of the Canyon (1923)
Code of the Sea (1924)
Empty Hands (1924)
The Devil's Cargo (1925)
Adventure (1925)
A Son of His Father (1925)
Lord Jim (1925)
The Blind Goddess (1926)
Mantrap (1926)
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
Hula (1927)
The Rough Riders (1927)
Abie's Irish Rose (1928)
The Awakening (1928)
Wolf Song (1929)
The Virginian (1929)
Common Clay (1930)
Renegades (1930)
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
Red Dust (1932)
The Wet Parade (1932)
Treasure Island (1934)
Reckless (1935)
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Test Pilot (1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Adventure (1945)
Joan of Arc (1948)

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