Sidney M. Goldin

Sidney M. Goldin (1880-September 19, 1937) was an American 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, Maurice Schwartz and Ludwig Satz 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 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 back east to produce Yiddish "talkies" until the 1930s although he would take a three year absence from filmaking until directing his last film "The Cantor's Son" in 1937. Becoming ill while on location in Easton, Pennsylvania, Goldin died of a heart ailment while at French Hospital in New York City, New York on the night of September 19, 1937. ["Sidney M. Goldin; Motion Picture Director Became Ill While on Location". New York Times. 21 Sep 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" (1931)
*"A Cantor on Trial" (1931)
*"Feast of Passover" (1931)
*"Shulamis" (1931)
*"Shulamith" (1931)
*"Eternal Fools" (1930)
*"The Jewish Gypsy" (1930)
*"Kol Nidre" (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 (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" (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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