Catskill Honeymoon
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| Catskill Honeymoon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Josef Berne |
| Written by | Joel Jacobson |
| Produced by | Martin J. Cohen Hymie Jacobson Jack O. Lamont |
| Cinematography | Charles Downs |
| Edited by | Nathan Cy Braunstein Jack Kemp |
| Music by | Hymie Jacobson |
Production company | Martin Cohen Enterprises Inc. |
| Distributed by | Martin Cohen Enterprises Inc. |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Yiddish |
Catskill Honeymoon is a 1950 American musical comedy film directed by Josef Berne. It features several prominent Jewish-American entertainers.
Cast
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Rau, Herb (12 January 1950). "At the Movies". The Miami News. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Catskill Honeymoon (1950)". National Film Preservation Foundation. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "At the Ambassador". The New York Times. 28 January 1950. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ Martin, Mildred (25 September 1950). "Musical Film At Princess". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ Hoberman, J. (2010). Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. University Press of New England. p. 337. ISBN 978-1584658702.
- ^ Koszarski, Richard (2021). "Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 234.