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Shir Hashirim
Directed byHenry Lynn
Based on
Shir Hashirim
by
Produced byHenry Lynn
StarringSamuel Goldenberg
LanguageYiddish

Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") is a 1935 lost Yiddish-language film.

Cast

Production and release

The film is based on the Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky and Anshel Schorr. The low-budget Yiddish talkie, directed by Henry Lynn, intersperses English-language titles with the spoken dialogue.[2] It was the first of six Yiddish films Lynn had been signed by the Empire Film Company to make.[1] Variety estimated that the film cost ten to fifteen thousand dollars to produce.[3]

The film premiered in October 1935 and has since been lost. It showed at New York's Acme Theatre in Union Square. Variety reported that the Acme's run lasted four days.[3]

Reception

Variety's Wolfe Kaufman, after disparaging the whole of Yiddish film, wrote that the film's director was unworthy of the job.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Lynn's Yiddish Feature Finished In New York". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 (21): 4. September 23, 1935. ISSN 0018-3660. ProQuest 2297259085.
  2. ^ Hoberman 1991, pp. 207–208.
  3. ^ a b c Hoberman 1991, p. 208.

Bibliography

Further reading