THE CANTOR'S SON (1937) Moishe Oysher, Florence Weiss & Judith Abarbanel | Drama, Musical | B&W

The Cantor's Son is a 1937 musical drama and marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher

SYNOPSIS
A wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.

CAST & CREW
Moishe Oysher as Saul 'Shloimele' Reichman
Florence Weiss as Helen
Judith Abarbanel as Rivke
Michael Rosenberg as Yossel Lutchik
Juda Bleich as Cantor Zanvel Reichman
Bertha Guttenberg as Malke Reichman
Isidore Cashier as W.H. Rosovitch
Vicki Marcus as Saul as a young boy
Lorraine Abarbanal as Rivke as a young girl
Irving Honigman as Ben, club manager
Rose Wallerstein as Clara, Helen's roommate

Directed by Ilya Motyleff
Written by Louis Freiman, Mark Schweid
Produced by Arthur Block, Samuel Segal
Cinematography Frank Zucker
Edited by Leonard Weiss
Music by Aleksandr Olshanetsky
Production company Eron Pictures
Distributed by Eron Pictures
Release date December 26, 1937 (United States)
Running Time 90 minutes
Country United States
Language Yiddish