His Wife's Lover
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His Wife's Lover 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
.
Ferenc Molnár
LanguageFerenc Molnár was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar...
's The Guardsman. Ludwig Satz
Ludwig Satz
Ludwig Satz was an actor in Yiddish theater and film, best known for his comic roles. A 1925 New York Times article singles him out as the greatest Yiddish comic actor of the time....
, 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
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
.