Judith Abarbanel

Nat Silver is a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. So this slick sophisticate decides that he must learn how to arrange a good marriage in order to find himself a good match, and reinvents himself as a matchmaker. Not your traditional matchmaker, Nat sets off on his new venture, which he knows nothing about, in ascot and morning coat, and refuses to charge for his services. (imdb)

This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. (imdb)

Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.