23 October 1908 Comedy 12 mins
This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
Watch the official Romance of a Jewess 1908 trailer in HD below.
Florence Lawrence as Ruth Simonson
George Gebhardt as Simon Bimberg
Gladys Egan as The Daughter
Mack Sennett as Customer / In Bookstore / Doctor
Romance de una judía Trailer
United States 23 October 1908
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03 September 1908
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19 December 1908
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18 September 1908
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11 December 1908
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16 October 1908
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18 December 1908
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom.
08 September 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
06 May 1908
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite.
11 September 1908
A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying.
24 January 1908
When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work.
07 April 1908
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