His Wife's Lover (1931)

Directed by

Sidney M. Goldin

Genre

comedy film, musical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An actor impersonates an old man to marry a young woman. Then he takes on another disguise to test her faithfulness.

playfullightheartedwhimsicalromanticcomicmusicalfarce

What happens

His Wife's Lover (1931, original Yiddish title Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture". A play before it as a film, it was based on Ferenc Molnár's The Guardsman. Ludwig Satz, who also wrote the songs, plays an actor who disguises himself as an old man, wins the hand of a beautiful young woman, then adopts a different persona and tries to seduce her to test her fidelity. Satz's performance in this farce has been compared to the work of later Jewish comic performers such as Jerry Lewis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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