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Volume Number: 1
Episode Count: 2 Size of Volume: 13 MB Price: $3.99 Catalog # C-AIRS-1 Show / Hide Description
Abie's Irish Rose, which ran from January 24, 1942 through September 2, 1944. Joe Rines directed the cast that starred Richard Bond, Sydney Smith, Richard Coogan and Clayton "Bud" Collyer as Abie Levy. Betty Winkler, Mercedes McCambridge, Julie Stevens and Marion Shockley portrayed Rosemary Levy. Solomon Levy was played by Alfred White, Charlie Cantor and Alan Reed.
Others in the cast: Walter Kinsella (as Patrick Murphy), Menasha Skulnik (Isaac Cohen), Anna Appel (Mrs. Cohen), Ann Thomas (Casey), Bill Adams (Father Whelan), Amanda Randolph (maid) and Dolores Gillenas (the Levys' twins). The announcer was Howard Petrie, and Joe Stopak provided the music. The opening theme music was "My Wild Irish Rose" by Chauncey Olcott. The basic premise of the play was extensively copied, and Anne Nichols sued one imitator, Universal Studios, which had produced The Cohens and the Kellys, a film based on a play about an Irish boy who marries a Jewish girl from feuding families. However, in Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corporation, 45 F.2d 119 (2d Cir. 1930), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found for the defendant, holding that copyright protection cannot be extended to the characteristics of stock characters in a story, whether it be a book, play or film.
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