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The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959)

ALL 12/14/1959 (en) Drama, TV Movie 98 Min
  • Release
    12/14/1959
  • Production
    Talent Associates
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    The World of Sholom Aleichem
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Based on the Writer Whose Stories Inspired The Fiddler on the Roof

Overview

This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.

  1. Don Richardson

    Director

  3. Editor



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Casts

  1. Gertrude Berg

    Hannah

  2. Sam Levene

    Mendele

  3. Zero Mostel

    Melamed / Maxel

  4. Morris Carnovsky

    Aaron Katz / Presiding Angel

  5. Lee Grant

    The Goatseller / Avenging Angel

  6. Nancy Walker

    Rifkele

  7. Jack Gilford

    Bontsche Shveig / Angel

  8. Charlotte Rae

    The Angel Rochele

  9. Elsa Freed

  10. Henry Lascoe

    Dodi the Innkeeper

  11. Conrad Bromberg

    (as Conrad Josephs)

  12. Frederick Rolf

    Rabbi David / Prosecuting Angel

  13. Dora Weissman

  14. Carl Reindel

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 14 , Crews : 20

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The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959) 98 Min

ALL 12/14/1959 (en)
Drama, TV Movie
  • Release 12/14/1959
  • Production
    Talent Associates
  • Original title The World of Sholom Aleichem
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Based on the Writer Whose Stories Inspired The Fiddler on the Roof

Overview

This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.

  1. Don Richardson

    Director

  2. Sholom Aleichem, Y.L. Peretz

    Story

  3. Editor

  4. Lewis Freedman, Henry T. Weinstein

    Producer



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