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. During his career, he worked frequently with Molly Picon

Molly Picon

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

, Maurice Schwartz

Maurice Schwartz

Maurice Schwartz was a Russian-born film and theatre actor active in the United States. He was also a film director, film producer, theatrical producer, screenwriter and theatre director.-Theatre:...

 and 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....

 in Europe and Palestine.

Career

Goldin began directing films in Russia and Eastern Europe during his early career and by the early 1920s had been working for Listo-Film in Vienna, Austria where he directed the moderately successful East and West in 1923. Brought to Hollywood in 1926, Goldin produced Yiskor with Maurice Schwartz

Maurice Schwartz

Maurice Schwartz was a Russian-born film and theatre actor active in the United States. He was also a film director, film producer, theatrical producer, screenwriter and theatre director.-Theatre:...

 before becoming a director for independent producers the following year. However, while under contract for A-B Studios, his film On the Mountains was considered a commercial and artistic failure nearly resulting in the bankruptcy of the studio.

After filming East Side Sadie in 1929, he returned east to produce Yiddish "talkies" until the 1930s although he would take a three year absence from filmmaking until directing his last film The Cantor's Son in 1937. Becoming ill while on location in Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....

, Goldin died of a heart ailment while at French Hospital in New York City, New York on the night of September 19, 1937.

Filmography

• The Cantor's Son (1937) (uncredited)
• The Voice of Israel (1934)
• Yiskor (1933)
• Live and Laugh (1933)
• Uncle Moses (1932)
• His Wife's Lover
  His Wife's Lover
  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...
  
   (1931)
• A Cantor on Trial (1931)
• Feast of Passover (1931)
• Shulamis (1931)
• Shulamith (1931)
• Eternal Fools (1930)
• The Jewish Gypsy (1930)
• Kol Nidre
  Kol Nidre
  Kol Nidre is an Aramaic declaration recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement...
  
   (1930)
• My Jewish Mother (1930)
• Oy, Doktor! (1930)
• Sailor's Sweetheart (1930)
• Shoemaker's Romance (1930)
• The Eternal Prayer (1929)
• East Side Sadie (1929)
• Style and Class (1929)
• Yiskor (1924)
• East and West (1923)
• Führe uns nicht in Versuchung (1922)
• Hütet eure Töchter (1922)
• The Bird Fancier (1920)
• Tam na horách (1920)
• The Woman Hater
  The Woman Hater
  The Woman Hater is an early Jacobean era stage play, a comedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. One of the earliest of their collaborations, it was the first of their plays to appear in print, in 1607.-Date and publication:...
  
   (1920)
• The Gates of Doom (1919)
• The Mysterious Mr. Browning (1918), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• It Can't Be Done (1918), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• Oh! What a Whopper! (1916), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• Billy's College Job (1915)
• When the Call Came (1915/I), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• The Hunchback's Romance (1915), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• What Might Have Been
  What Might Have Been
  "What Might Have Been" is the title of a song recorded by country music group Little Texas. It was released in May 1993 as the lead-off single from their second album, Big Time. It was co-written by the band's lead guitarist Porter Howell, rhythm guitarist Dwayne O'Brien, and keyboardist and...
  
   (1915/I), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• The Last of the Mafia (1915)
• Hear Ye, Israel (1915)
• The Jewish Crown (1915), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• The Period of the Jew (1915), credited as Sidney M. Golden
• The Heart of Jewess (1913)
• The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino (1912)
• A Western Child's Heroism (1912), credited as Sidney Golden

Further reading

• Antler, Joyce. Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1998. ISBN 0-87451-842-3
• Erens, Patricia. The Jew in American Cinema. Indiana University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-253-14500-7
• Gertner, Richard. International Motion Picture Almanac. Quigley Publishing Co. Inc, 1986.
• Macpherson, Kenneth. Close Up (Vol. 8). Kraus Reprint, 1969.
• Manchel, Frank. Film Study: an analytical bibliography. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8386-3186-X

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