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THE HEART OF NEW YORK
U.S., 1932
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Based on the play Mendel Inc. by David Freeman
Starring Joe Smith, Charlie Dale (“Smith & Dale”), George Sidney, Aline MacMahon
Approx. 73 min. 16mm.
“Goldstein’s Chop Suey” reads a Hester Street store sign in this comedy about a lower East Side plumber who strikes it rich when he invents the dishwasher. Doubletalking vaudevillians Smith and Dale recreate their stage roles as quarrelling partners “Schnaps and Shtrudel”.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film