Americaner Schadchen - אמעריקאנער שגכן, Ich Wil Zein a Boarder - איך וויל זיין א בארדער - American Matchmaker, I want to be a Boarder
Barcode: 58946472
Call Number: 58946472
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 87 min.
Date: 1937, 1940
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Yiddish
Creator: Edgar G. Ulmer ; Joseph Selden
Description: American Matchmaker In his last Yiddish-language feature, Americaner Schadchen, Edgar G. Ulmer married his experience of the Yiddish theater -- with its musical interludes and stock comic characters -- to the urbane romantic comedies Hollywood made in counterpoint to the Depression. East European shtetl mores enter into gentle negotiations with New York sophistication in the lives of Ulmer’s second-generation American Jewish immigrants. I want to be a Boarder Chaim and his wife can't decide whether to separate or divorce. So, instead, they decide to play boarder and landlady. This game goes well until the landlady begins to fall for the charming boarder. Soon the landlady starts talking about murdering her husband, much to Chaim's dismay...
Subjects: Yiddish, Jewish life in tAmerica, Musical, Early Cinema,
Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection