Romance of a Jewess
About Romance of a Jewess
After her mother dies, Ruth Simonson and her father go back to their pawnshop. She and a bookseller fall in love. Her father drives him off and brings a matchmaker's suitor, whom she refuses. She chooses the bookseller and is told to leave. He falls from a ladder and dies. Ruth sells the books and lives poor with their daughter. Ill, she sends the child to pawn something. The grandfather recognizes it, takes Ruth back, and she dies soon after.
Cast & crew
More about Romance of a Jewess
D. W. Griffith wrote and directed. G. W. Bitzer photographed. Biograph released it on October 23, 1908. The original length was 964 feet. Florence Lawrence plays Ruth. George Gebhardt plays the bookseller Simon Bimberg. Gladys Egan plays the daughter. Arthur V. Johnson plays in the bookstore and as the matchmaker. Mack Sennett is a customer and the doctor.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the pawnshop and the bookstore.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The father runs a pawnshop. The lover runs a bookshop.
- Ruth dies after the reconciliation, not in the street.
- The release length on record is 964 feet.
- Lawrence is Ruth. Egan is the child who carries the pledge.
Scenes
- The father orders Ruth out when she chooses the bookseller.
- The grandfather knows the object the child brings to pawn.
