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Release Date: 1928

Cast: Jean Hersholt, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Nancy Carroll

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Silent film, Indie, Comedy of manners, Black-and-white, Comedy, Romance Film, Domestic Comedy

Abie's Irish Rose is a 1928 early talking (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming, based on the play of the same title by Anne Nichols. It tells the story of a Jewish boy, Abie Levy, who falls in love with and secretly marries Rosemary Murphy, an Irish Catholic girl, but lies to his family, saying that she's Jewish. The fathers of both bride and groom are at first religiously bigoted toward the other but with the birth of twin grandchildren their antagonism fades. Only reels 3-6 and 9-12 survive of this film in a silent incomplete copy. There may also be an incomplete copy of reel 8,... MORE

Abie's Irish Rose is a 1928 early talking (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming, based on the play of the same title by Anne Nichols. It tells the story of a Jewish boy, Abie Levy, who falls in love with and secretly marries Rosemary Murphy, an Irish Catholic girl, but lies to his family, saying that she's Jewish. The fathers of both bride and groom are at first religiously bigoted toward the other but with the birth of twin grandchildren their antagonism fades. Only reels 3-6 and 9-12 survive of this film in a silent incomplete copy. There may also be an incomplete copy of reel 8, unverified. All of the surviving reels of the film are held at The Library of Congress in Washington D.C.. Abie's Irish Rose at the Internet Movie Database LESS