life in a big city love and romance. polish-american production. directed by joseph green and jan...
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Polish-American production.Directed by Joseph Green
and Jan Nowina-Przybylski.Starring Molly Picon and
Leon Liebgold.Green found a role
specifically for Picon.Music by Abraham Ellstein:
from film to life.Filmed in Kazimierz and
Warsaw.Real shtetl people as extras.
Musical comedy; melodrama; elements of slapstick comedy.
From near-documentary to a Cinderella tale.
Typical Yiddish “laughter through tears.”
Hollywood happy-ending.
Metapoetic scenes: director and producer looking for a new star.
Shtetl (Kazimierz)Semi-rural market
town;Horses as means of
transportation;Men with beards and
covered women;Archaic way of
dressing;Submissive women;Arranged marriage.
Big City (Warsaw)Grand urban space;Motor transport;Modern fashion for
men and women;A possibility of a
career for women;Independent women;Marriage for love.