Ivan Abramson-He was a director of American silent films active in the 1910s and 1920s. Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and soon became involved in Jewish newspaper field. In 1905 he founded an opera company. In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films. In 1917, after success with pictures including One Law for Both Enlighten Thy Daughter, Abramson partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation. Abramson's films include a number of melodramas with titillating titles, such as Forbidden Fruit (1915) and A Child for Sale (1920), and sexual hygiene films such as Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917) and The Sex Lure (1916). In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed East and West, filmed in Austria and starring Molly Picon, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles. Abramson died on September 15, 1934 in New York at Mount Sinai Hospital, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.
Ivan Abramson-He was a director of American silent films active in the 1910s and 1920s. Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and soon became involved in Jewish newspaper field. In 1905 he founded an opera company. In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films. In 1917, after success with pictures including One Law for Both Enlighten Thy Daughter, Abramson partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation. Abramson's films include a number of melodramas with titillating titles, such as Forbidden Fruit (1915) and A Child for Sale (1920), and sexual hygiene films such as Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917) and The Sex Lure (1916). In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed East and West, filmed in Austria and starring Molly Picon, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles. Abramson died on September 15, 1934 in New York at Mount Sinai Hospital, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.
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