American Matchmaker
American Matchmaker ★★½ Amerikaner Shadkhn 1940
Nat Silver decides to go into the matchmaking business, after his own marriages fail miserably, hoping to experience happiness vicariously. However, he soon begins to realize that one of his clients is a better match for him than the man he chose for her. In Yiddish with English subtitles. 87m/B VHS, DVD . Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Rosetta Bialis, Yudel Dubinsky, Abe Lax; D: Edgar G. Ulmer; W: S. (Shirley Ulmer) Castle; C: Edgar G. Ulmer.
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BORN: 1924, Tokyo
DIED: 1993, Tokyo
NATIONALITY: Japanese
GENRE: Fiction, drama, nonfiction
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