Yidl mitn fidl (1936)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Molly Picon	...	Itke aka Judel
	Simche Fostel	...	Arie - Itke's father
	Leon Liebgold	...	Efraim 'Froim' Kalamutker
	Max Bozyk	...	Izak 'Ajzyk' Kalamutker (as Maks Bozyk)
	Maks Brin	...	Marszelik
	Dora Fakiel	...	Tajbele Lebskierówna (as D. Fakiel)
	Basia Liebgold	...	Mrs. Lebskierowa
	Samuel Landau	...	Zalman Gold
	Chana Lewin	...	Madame Flaumbaum - the widow
	Symche Natan	...	R. Singer, theater manager
	Abraham Kurc	...	Theater co-manager (as A. Kurc)
	Laura Glucksman

Storyline

Director Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this film, the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema, starring Molly Picon, consummate comedienne of Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and film. This is the classic folk comedy about a man and his daughter who, penniless, decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter disguises herself as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety about unforeseeable problems that could befall a young woman "out in the world." They then join together with "another" father-son duo for music, comedy and romance. Green's original screenplay was enhanced by the folksy lyrics of Yiddish poet Itzik Manger and the memorable musical score of Abraham Ellstein, as well as the talents of Leon Leibold, the romantic lead who later starred in The Dybbuk and Tevye, and Max Bozyk, a character actor par excellence... Written by Anonymous  

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