Abie's Irish Rose

The Nichols play which opened in 1922 and played for five years to the bewilderment of critics was back on the screen again (the first being the part-talkie in 1928) and this time really collapsed once and for all, audiences thoroughly rejecting the low-brow racial insults traded by the Jewish and Irish families feuding over the romance of their son and daughter. The coarse vaudevillian humor that bolstered such a tasteless show of slurs and slaps had faded with the Roaring Twenties. This film also, thankfully, has sunk with little trace.