Research Catalog

Title

Americaner Schadchen / Fame Films ; produced and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. I Want to be a boarder = ʼIkh ṿil zayn ʼa border / Jewish Talking Picture Co. ; produced and directed by Joseph Seiden.

Publication

Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972.
• Castle, S.
• Fuchs, Leo.
• Abarbanel, Judith.
• Dubinsky, Judel.
• Seiden, Joseph.
• Zwerling, Yetta, 1894-1982.
• Jewish Talking Picture Co.
• National Center for Jewish Film.

Description

1 videocassette (102 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.

Alternative Title

• I want to be a boarder.
• American matchmaker.
• ʼIkh ṿil zayn ʼa border.
• ʼAmeriḳaner shadkhen.

Subjects

• Short films
• Marriage brokerage > Drama
• Marriage > Drama
• Jews > New York (State) > New York > Drama
• Musical films
• Motion pictures, Yiddish
• Feature films
• Comedy films

Note

• Yiddish, with English subtitles.
• At beginning of film: American matchmaker.
• Title on container for Americaner Schadchen: ʼAmeriḳaner shadkhen.
• Americaner schadchen (87 min.): film made in 1940; story, G. Heimo ; screenplay, S. Castle ; dialogue, B. Ressler ; director of photography, J. Burgi Contner ; music, Sam Morgenstern ; lyrics, William Mercur. The story of second generation Jewish immigrants in New York.
• I want to be a boarder (15 min.): film made in 1937. The story of a husband and wife who pretend to be landlady and tenant.

Performer (note)

• Americaner schadchen: Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinsky.
• I want to be a boarder: Leo Fuchs, Yetta Zwerling.

System Details (note)

• VHS format.

OCLC

• 78951031
• ocm78951031
• SCSB-3885013

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries