AMERICAN MATCHMAKER

Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer (87min, USA, 1940)
Yiddish // Restored and with new English subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Film
Narrative

Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as “the Yiddish Fred Astaire,” plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. An art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation, Edgar G. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern. With its urbane, neurotic hero, American Matchmaker heralds the films of Woody Allen.