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Abie's Irish Rose is a popular comedy by Anne Nichols, which premiered in 1922. Initially a Broadway play , it has become familiar through repeated stage productions, films and radio programs. The basic premise involves an Irish Catholic girl and a young Jewish man who marry despite the objections of their families .
Abie's Irish Rose is a 1928 early sound (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt, and J. Farrell MacDonald. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles.
"Abie's Irish Rose" played 2,327 performances. Sign up for Screen Gab, a free newsletter about the TV and movies everyone’s talking about from the L.A. Times.
Abie's Irish Rose is a 1946 American comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland based on a play by Anne Nichols. The film stars Michael Chekhov, Joanne Dru, Richard Norris, J. M. Kerrigan, George E. Stone, Vera Gordon, and Emory Parnell. The film was released on December 27, 1946, by United Artists.
The Sioux City Journal said in September 1930 that the theater company would be in Le Mars, Iowa, to present the plays Skidding, Abie's Irish Rose, What a Woman Wants, and Little Miss Bluebeard from September 4 to September 7, 1930. [10] G. D. Sweet Famous Players had their first tour in Woodbury County, Iowa, in 1931. [11]
To a certain degree, Abie's Irish Rose paralleled the life of its author, who was born into a strict Baptist family, but married (and divorced) Henry Duffy, an Irish Catholic. Nichols wrote the play during this marriage, and would eventually convert to Catholicism herself.
Steven Suskin describes it as "Abie's Irish Rose set against the burning of Atlanta." [2] Bart himself described the play as "…three human stories inside an epic canvas; the major human conflict – the major plot – personifies the spirit of London and how that spirit developed during the period of the piece." [3]
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