Movies: Louis 'Leibele' Waldman

  • 1940
    Motel the Operator

    Motel the Operator (1940)

    Motel the Operator

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    Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving chil...

    Motel the Operator
  • 1936
    Love and Sacrifice

    Love and Sacrifice (1936)

    Love and Sacrifice

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    The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, Love and Sacrifice is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic, theatrical, escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater....

    Love and Sacrifice
  • 1931
    A Cantor on Trial

    A Cantor on Trial (1931)

    A Cantor on Trial

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    Cantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan....

    A Cantor on Trial