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Billed as the “first Jewish musical comedy talking picture,” His Wife’s Lover stars the popular Yiddish theater comedian Ludwig Satz in one of his only surviving film performances. This fast-paced, song-filled comedy features evocative location photography of New York City’s Lower East Side and with a screenplay by a female author, Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff, His Wife’s Lover revels in its role reversals and love triangles all the while exploring the gender issues of its day. When the handsome actor Eddie Wien decides to marry, his uncle Oscar Stein warns that all women are frivolous, and on the lookout for a fat pocketbook. To prove him wrong, Eddie woos shop girl Golde Blumberg while disguised as a repulsive old millionaire “Herman Weingarten.” Will love triumph over deception and mistaken identity?
Presented in a restored 35mm print from the National Center for Jewish Film, the film will be introduced by the great film critic and historian J. Hoberman, author of Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between two Worlds. It will be preceded by the 1955 short film Orchard Street, directed by the late avant-garde master Ken Jacobs, an immersive, colorful street film that captures the teeming vitality of its subject.
