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'The Shamrock and the Rose' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Jack Nelson and starring Mack Swain, Olive Hasbrouck and Edmund Burns.McCaffrey & Jacobs p.92 On the East Side feuding families the Cohens and the Kellys own an ice cream and a hot dog stand respectively, but their children have fallen in love.

It was one of a series of film presenting inter-community romance between Irish Americans and Jewish Americans.

Cast



* Mack Swain as Mr. Kelly

* Olive Hasbrouck as Rosie Cohen

* Edmund Burns as Tom Kelly

* Maurice Costello as Father O'Brien

* William H. Strauss as Mr. Cohen

* Dot Farley as Mrs. Kelly

* Rosa Rosanova as Mrs. Cohen

* Leon Holmes as Sammy Cohen

* Otto Lederer as Rabbi Naser

* Coy Watson as Mickey Kelly

References



Bibliography



* Ruth Barton. 'Irish National Cinema'. Routledge, 2004.

* Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. 'Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema'. Greenwood Publishing, 1999.


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