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Director
  
Victor Fleming

Language
  
English

5.6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

Abies Irish Rose (1928 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Jules Furthman
,
Julian Johnson
,
Herman Mankiewicz

Release date
  
November 3, 1928 (1928-11-03)

Based on
  
Abies Irish Rose  by Anne Nichols

Tagline
  
The Comedy That Put 'U' in Humor!

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. The film was later remade in 1946.

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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..

    References

    Abie's Irish Rose (1928 film) Wikipedia
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    Abies Irish Rose (1928 film) IMDb Abies Irish Rose (1928 film) themoviedb.org