American Matchmaker - Amerikaner Shadkhn

Feature. 87 min. B & W
Screenplay by S. Castle
Music and Lyrics by Sam Morgenstern, William Mercur
Starring Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinksy, Anna Guskin, Celia Bodkin, Abraham Lax
Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as “the Yiddish Fred Astaire,” plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation.