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Abie's Irish Rose is a popular comedy by Anne Nichols, which premiered in 1922. Initially a Broadway play , it has become familiar through repeated stage productions, films and radio programs. The basic premise involves an Irish Catholic girl and a young Jewish man who marry despite the objections of their families .
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Abie's Irish Rose is a 1928 early sound (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt, and J. Farrell MacDonald. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles.
Back in the 1920s, a comedy called "Abie's Irish Rose," about a Jewish boy married to a Catholic girl and the havoc that plays among their families, ran for more than five years on Broadway in ...
Abie's Irish Rose: P 2,327 [34] May 23, 1922: October 1, 1927: First ever Broadway production with 2,000+ performances; Revivals in 1937 (46 performances) and 1954 (20 performances) 35 Oklahoma! M 2,212 [35] March 31, 1943: May 29, 1948: A Special Tony Award in 1993 for the show's 50th anniversary
Early in his career, Gorcey found success in comedy roles. Between 1907 and 1937 he played in several stage productions, including Tom Jones (1912), What Ails You? (1918), Somebody's Sweetheart (1920) (as "A Mysterious Conspirator"), Always You (1922) (as "Isaac Cohen"), Abie's Irish Rose (1923), Wildflower (1925) (as "Gaston La Roche"), Song of the Flame (1925) (as “Count Boris”), Cherry ...
Universal Pictures Corp. To a certain degree, Abie's Irish Rose paralleled the life of its author, who was born into a strict Baptist family, but married (and divorced) Henry Duffy, an Irish Catholic. Nichols wrote the play during this marriage, and would eventually convert to Catholicism herself.
Brown began acting on the stage in California. In 1922, she had leading roles in Oliver Morosco's productions Wait Till We're Married [5] and Abie's Irish Rose. [6] She went on to act in Broadway plays such as Relations (1928), Mother Lode (1934), Play, Genius, Play! (1935), Behind Red Lights (1937), Sun Kissed (1937), Our Town (1938), and ...