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Ida Kaminska
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Ida Kaminska began a stage career at the age of five. Her first movie role was in 1912 in Mirele Efros, with her mother and her sister in other roles in the film. Her film career was brief, only appearing in four other movies in her entire career. However, in 1965, she starred in the Slovak and Czech movie The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, dir. Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos), and she received a 1966 nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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The great Yiddish stage star Ida Kaminska, 67 when nommed for actress in the Oscar-winning Czech film "The Shop on Main Street," subsequently appeared in only one American pic. Jocelyne LaGarde, nommed for best supporting actress in "Hawaii" (1966), never made another movie. And though Haing S. Ngor won for supporting actor in his first role, "The Killing Fields" (1984), that was his sole big movie.
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Biographical Information: Ida Kaminska was born on September 4, 1899, in Odessa, Russia. She was the daughter of the great Polish Yiddish actress, Ester Rachel Kaminska, and Abraham Yitzhak Kaminska, an actor, playwright and director. She first appeared on stage at age six, and by the time she was fifteen she was singing in the operetta theater run by her father. By eighteen, she had directed her first play. Kaminska became a leading actress in her mother's Yiddish theater company, Warsaw's Kaminska Theater, and she toured Russia with them in 1918. She ... toured Poland with Zygmund Turkow's Warsaw Jewish Art Theater and performed in Paris, Brussels, and Lithuania in 1931.
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Ida Kaminska became famous after she won the Oscar for her role in The Shop on Main Street. She lived in Poland until 1968. She performed from the age of seven. Her mother Esther Rokl Kaminska was ... a legend in the Yiddish Theater in Poland. In 1923, Ida Kaminska established the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater and after World War II, she established the Jewish State Theater in Warsaw.
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Impoverished tailor Morris Mishkin (Zero Mostel) can't work because of a bad back, and worries how he's going to pay for medicine for his aging, ailing wife Fanny (Ida Kaminska). He sees a thief (Harry Belafonte) killed while trying to escape through traffic. Then, an identical man shows up in his kitchen, insisting that he's Morris' guardian angel, and that his name is Alexander Levine. When Morris gets over his initial panic, he finds that Levine can recite the Hebrew prayer for bread perfectly. But, even though Fanny's condition seems to improve dramatically whenever Levine is around, Morris can't shake the belief that his intruder is simply a nut case. Alexander is convinced he must make Morris believe before dawn, and ... tries desperately to get his suspicious girlfriend Sally (Gloria Foster) to say she still loves him.
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The poster for “A Shop On Main Street” by Wiktor Gorka, 1965, was printed for the Academy-Award-winning film starring an aging Ida Kaminska. It shows shadows of a pair of old hands reaching for buttons on a beige background. This poster is an example of what was produced for the foreign market, as the film was produced by a Czech production company. Some other well-known films are represented at the exhibit are “Cabaret” and “Europa Europa.”
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