Abie's Irish Rose (1928 film)

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.

Abie's Irish Rose
Theatrical release poster for Abie's Irish Rose
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVictor Fleming
Written byJules Furthman
Julian Johnson, Herman Mankiewicz (titles)
Based onAbie's Irish Rose
by Anne Nichols
Produced byB. P. Schulberg
StarringCharles "Buddy" Rogers
Nancy Carroll
Jean Hersholt
J. Farrell MacDonald
CinematographyHarold Rosson
Edited byEda Warren
Music byJ. S. Zamecnik
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 3, 1928 (1928-11-03)
Running time
12 reels (10,471 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.5 million[1]

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

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., and the Vitaphone soundtrack discs for the film still exist complete has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3]

See also

References
  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


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