Catskill Honeymoon

1950 American film
  • January 1950 (1950-01)
Running time
96 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesEnglish
Yiddish

Catskill Honeymoon is a 1950 American musical comedy film directed by Josef Berne. It features several prominent Jewish-American entertainers.

Cast

  • Michal Michalesko
  • Jan Bart
  • Bas Sheva
  • Cookie Bowers
  • Max Bozyk
  • Reizl Bozyk
  • The Feder Sisters
  • Mike Hammer
  • Henrietta Jacobson
  • Julius Adler
  • Mary LaRoche
  • Abe Lax
  • Al Murray
  • David Page
  • Dorothy Page
  • Gita Stein
  • Irving Grossman
  • Dina Goldberg

Release

The film premiered at the Plaza Theatre in Miami in January 1950.[1] According to the National Film Preservation Foundation, the film's success "demonstrated that by 1950 the center of Jewish-American entertainment had moved from New York City to the Catskill resorts of upstate New York."[2]

Reception

Herb Rau of The Miami News wrote that the film is "loaded with entertainment", and praised both the music and the comedy.[1] The New York Times wrote that the "people in the show are all full of spirit and their energy reaches out and stimulates the audience."[3] Mildred Martin of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the film is "slapped together in hit or miss fashion", and that it "strings its undistinguished material on the merest excuse for a plot.[4]

Film critic J. Hoberman called the film "insipid" and wrote that it "dissolved Yiddish movies into canned vaudeville."[5] Film historian Richard Koszarski wrote that "the shamelessly commercial montage that opens the film is probably the most interesting piece of work in it."[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Rau, Herb (12 January 1950). "At the Movies". The Miami News. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Catskill Honeymoon (1950)". National Film Preservation Foundation. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  3. ^ "At the Ambassador". The New York Times. 28 January 1950. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  4. ^ Martin, Mildred (25 September 1950). "Musical Film At Princess". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  5. ^ Hoberman, J. (2010). Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. University Press of New England. p. 337. ISBN 978-1584658702.
  6. ^ Koszarski, Richard (2021). "Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 234.

External links

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