Romance of a Jewess

image
Director(s):
Release date: October 23, 1908
Duration: 12 minutes
Add to favorites

Overview

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.

Starring

image
Florence Lawrence
Ruth Simonson
image
George Gebhardt
Simon Bimberg
image
Gladys Egan
The Daughter
image
Mack Sennett
Customer / In Bookstore / Doctor