''Catskill Honeymoon'' is a 1950 American musical comedy film directed by

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. It features several prominent Jewish-American entertainers.

Cast

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* Cookie Bowers * Max Bozyk *

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* The Feder Sisters * Mike Hammer *

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* Julius Adler * Mary LaRoche * Abe Lax * Al Murray * David Page * Dorothy Page * Gita Stein * Irving Grossman * Dina Goldberg

Release

The film premiered at the Plaza Theatre in

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in January 1950. According to the

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, the film's success "demonstrated that by 1950 the center of Jewish-American entertainment had moved from New York City to the Catskill resorts of upstate New York."

Reception

Herb Rau of ''

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'' wrote that the film is "loaded with entertainment", and praised both the music and the comedy. ''

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'' wrote that the "people in the show are all full of spirit and their energy reaches out and stimulates the audience." Mildred Martin of ''

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'' wrote that the film is "slapped together in hit or miss fashion", and that it "strings its undistinguished material on the merest excuse for a plot. Film critic

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called the film "insipid" and wrote that it "dissolved Yiddish movies into canned vaudeville." Film historian

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wrote that "the shamelessly commercial montage that opens the film is probably the most interesting piece of work in it."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0042320, Catskill Honeymoon American musical comedy films 1950 musical comedy films