Ivan Abramson was a director of American

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 silent film

Silent film

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s active in the 1910s and 1920s.

Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and soon became involved in Jewish newspaper field. In 1905 he founded an opera company. In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films. In 1917, after success with pictures including One Law for Both

One Law for Both

One Law for Both is a 1917 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson.-Plot:Elga Pulsaki and her brother Ossip emigrate to the United States from Russia to escape persecution...

Enlighten Thy Daughter

Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917 film)

Enlighten Thy Daughter is a 1917 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson.The exploitation film/sexual hygiene film warns against the dangers of premarital sex. Lillian Stevens is young woman who ends up having sex with Harold Winthrop after both are caught in an unexpected storm during a date. Of...

, Abramson partnered with William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst

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 to form the Graphic Film Corporation.

Abramson's films include a number of melodramas with titillating titles, such as Forbidden Fruit (1915) and A Child for Sale

A Child for Sale

A Child for Sale is a 1920 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson, starring Gladys Leslie and Creighton Hale.-Plot: Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two childen in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children for $1,000 to a...

(1920), and sexual hygiene films such as Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917) and The Sex Lure (1916).

In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin

Sidney M. Goldin

Sidney M. Goldin was an American Jewish silent film director as well as a prominent writer, actor and producer for Yiddish theater during the early 20th century...

 directed East and West, filmed in Austria

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 and starring Molly Picon

Molly Picon

Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller....

, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles.

Abramson died on September 15, 1934 in New York at Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

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, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.

Selected filmography

• Should a Woman Divorce?
  Should a Woman Divorce?
  Should a Woman Divorce? is a 1914 silent film written by Ivan Abramson and directed by Edwin McKim, and starring Lea Leland and Leonid Samoloff.-Plot:...
  
  (writer/producer) (1914)
• A Mother's Confession
  A Mother's Confession
  A Mother's Confession is a 1915 silent film written and directed by Ivan Abramson, and starring Christine Mayo and Austin Webb.. , The Moving Picture World-Plot and background:...
  
   (1915)
• Forbidden Fruit (1915)
• The Sex Lure (1916)
• One Law for Both
  One Law for Both
  One Law for Both is a 1917 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson.-Plot:Elga Pulsaki and her brother Ossip emigrate to the United States from Russia to escape persecution...
  
  (1917)
• Married in Name Only
  Married in Name Only
  Married in Name Only is a 1917 silent film written by Ivan Abramson and directed by Edmund Lawrence, starring Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, and Marie Shotwell.-Plot:The plot is based on eugenics...
  
  (1917) (writer)
• Enlighten Thy Daughter
  Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917 film)
  Enlighten Thy Daughter is a 1917 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson.The exploitation film/sexual hygiene film warns against the dangers of premarital sex. Lillian Stevens is young woman who ends up having sex with Harold Winthrop after both are caught in an unexpected storm during a date. Of...
  
  (1917)
• When Men Betray (1918)
• A Child for Sale
  A Child for Sale
  A Child for Sale is a 1920 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson, starring Gladys Leslie and Creighton Hale.-Plot: Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two childen in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children for $1,000 to a...
  
  (1920)
• Wildness of Youth
  Wildness of Youth
  Wildness of Youth is a 1922 silent film directed by Ivan Abramson, starring Virginia Pearson, Harry T. Morey and Mary Anderson.-Plot:Spoiled son Andrew Kane competes with James Surbrun for the affections of wild child Julie Grayton . Kane is convicted of murdering Surbrun, but later exonerated., p...
  
  (1922)
• East and West (1923)

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