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Columbia Pictures
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See what riches did to a son and poverty to a daughter. Learn what parents are forced to endure from their children!
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
Jean Hersholt
Julius Goldfish - Pa
Lina Basquette
Birdie Goldfish
Ricardo Cortez
Morris Goldfish
Rex Lease
Eddie Lesser
Rosa Rosanova
Tilda Goldfish - Ma
Syd Crossley
Goldfish's Butler
Ferike Boros
Delancey Street Woman
Clarence Burton
Police Desk Sergeant
Paul Ellis
Crook
Otto Fries
Tradesman
Julia Swayne Gordon
Mrs. Striker
Donald Hall
Minor Role
Leon Janney
Eddie Lesser as a Boy
Julanne Johnston
Irma Striker
Virginia Marshall
Birdie Goldfish as a girl
Bernard Siegel
Minor Role
Ted Tetzlaff
Cinematography
Frank Capra
Director
C. Bakaleinikoff
Conductor
Howard J. Green
Dialogue
Sonya Levien
Screenplay
Fannie Hurst
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The Lure of Crooning Water
The Gold Rush
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Rosemary's Baby
Battleship Potemkin
Sleepers
Pandora's Box
Company
Underground
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
The Goodbye Girl
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Birth of Shri Krishna
The Mills in Joy and Sorrow
Carmen, the Bandit's Daughter
The Marble Heart
Recess
Four Feathers
Heidi
August Rush
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Skater Girl
Eleanor the Great
Take the Lead
Radium Girls
Brand Upon the Brain!
I Believe in Unicorns
Hungry Hearts
Cradle Will Rock
Here
Too Late Blues
Beyond the Sea
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The Jazz Singer
Won't Back Down
Wonderstruck
A Kid Like Jake
A Second Chance
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