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The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 14, 1959

Original Title:
The World of Sholom Aleichem

Genres:
Drama | TV Movie

Production Companies:
Talent Associates

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 98

Based on the Writer Whose Stories Inspired The Fiddler on the Roof

Overview from TheMovieDB

This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.

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Performers

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Production

Casting:
Marc Merson

Choreographer:
Ellida Geira

Costume Design:
Michael Travis

Director:
Don Richardson

Graphic Designer:
Bill Bunce

Lighting Director:
Vernon Cook

Makeup Supervisor:
Cricket McCune

Original Music Composer:
Serge Hovey
Robert de Cormier

Producer:
Lewis Freedman
Henry T. Weinstein

Production Assistant:
Lee Miller

Production Supervisor:
Budd Wilds

Script Editor:
Bob Rafelson

Set Decoration:
Myron Bleam

Settings:
Zvi Geyra

Story:
Sholom Aleichem
Y.L. Peretz

Unit Manager:
Jack McGeehan

Writer:
Arnold Perl

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