At a Monticello, New York
establishment, host Larry Daniels tells stories and
introduces a number of performers, including the Burton
Sisters singing "You're Lovely in My Eyes"; comedian Menashe
Skulnick performing the song-skit "Oy Doctor"; Seymour
Rechtzeit singing a love song with Esta Salzman; Cantor
Leibele Waldman singing the Hebrew prayer "Kol Nidre" in a
synagogue; comedian Max Wilner; female cantor Mary Forest;
Joseph Buloff portraying a Russian shoemaker in a skit
entitled "The Shoemaker's Romance"; comedian Fyvush Finkel
performing the song-skit "I Want a Divorce;" Michel
Rosenberg; song and dance team Leo Fuchs and Yetta Zwerling;
and actor Michel Michalesko performing a song and a scene
...
The opening credits read, "'Monticello,
Here We Come!' A Borscht Circuit Revue." Portions of the
film consisted of shorts made in 1930 by Judea Film, a
company owned by director Joseph Seiden. "Oy Doctor" was
taken from a two-reel film of the same name, and "The
Shoemaker's Romance," from the two-reel film Shuster Libe;
both of these sequences were also included in the 1933 film
Live and Laugh (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40;
F3.2538) and in the 1941 film Mazel Tov Yidden (see entry
above). According to modern sources, in 1950, Seiden also
released Borsht Belt Follies, which either was this film
under a different title, or another picture incorporating
some of this film's material.
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