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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 .
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.
Her most famous production was Abie's Irish Rose, a farce depicting the tumult that arises with the marriage of a young Jewish man and an Irish girl. This play broke the record for the longest run in Broadway theater history, and was made into films in 1928 and again in 1946.
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
Abie's Irish Rose closed after a run of 2,327 performances, after having opened on May 23, 1922. At the time, it was the longest running play in Broadway history, and was later passed by Life with Father in 1941. [44] Died:
Abie's Irish Rose, the most popular Broadway theatre play of the 1920s, was premiered at the Fulton Theatre in New York City with the first of 2,327 performances. Closing on October 21, 1927, Abie's Irish Rose would hold the record for the longest-running Broadway show until surpassed by Tobacco Road. [108]
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 ...
She began her theatre career on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre [citation needed] playing a bridesmaid in the 1922 play Abie's Irish Rose [4] which broke a record for run of the play, finally closing at the Theatre Republic on October 1, 1927. [citation needed] She then played Sadie in A Lady in Love (1927) [5] at the Lyceum Theatre.