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.
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Abie's Irish Rose | |
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Directed by | Victor Fleming |
Written by | Jules Furthman Julian Johnson, Herman Mankiewicz (titles) |
Based on | Abie's Irish Rose by Anne Nichols |
Produced by | B. P. Schulberg |
Starring | Charles "Buddy" Rogers Nancy Carroll Jean Hersholt J. Farrell MacDonald |
Cinematography | Harold Rosson |
Edited by | Eda Warren |
Music by | J. S. Zamecnik |
Production company | Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 12 reels (10,471 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.5 million[1] |
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.
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]
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