Motel the Operator
Release Date: 1940-01-15
Overview: Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.
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Cast
Chaim Tauber
as Motel Friedman
Malvina Rappel
as Esther Friedman
Maurice Kroner
as Benjamin Rosenwald
Berthe Hart
as Rebecca Rosenwald
Seymour Rechtzeit
as Jack Rosenwald
Crew
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Chaim Tauber - Theatre Play
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Joseph Seiden - Director
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Murray Dichter - Sound
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Paul Jacobs - Sound
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F. Allstadt - Art Direction
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