| Shir Hashirim | |
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| Directed by | Henry Lynn |
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| Produced by | Henry Lynn |
| Starring | Samuel Goldenberg |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Yiddish |
Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") is a 1935 lost Yiddish-language film.
The film is based on the Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky and Anshel Schorr. The low-budget Yiddish talkie, directed by Henry Lynn, intersperses English-language titles with the spoken dialogue.[2] It was the first of six Yiddish films Lynn had been signed by the Empire Film Company to make.[1] Variety estimated that the film cost ten to fifteen thousand dollars to produce.[3]
The film premiered in October 1935 and has since been lost. It showed at New York's Acme Theatre in Union Square. Variety reported that the Acme's run lasted four days.[3]
Variety's Wolfe Kaufman, after disparaging the whole of Yiddish film, wrote that the film's director was unworthy of the job.[3]
