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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
- 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. 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."
Reception
Herb Rau of The Miami News wrote that the film is "loaded with entertainment", and praised both the music and the comedy. 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." 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.
Film critic J. Hoberman called the film "insipid" and wrote that it "dissolved Yiddish movies into canned vaudeville." Film historian Richard Koszarski wrote that "the shamelessly commercial montage that opens the film is probably the most interesting piece of work in it."
References
- ^ 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.