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Birthday
February 17, 1887
Day of Death
1971-07-01
(84 years old)
Place of Birth
Volin - Russia
Also Known As
Alexander Elihu Tenenholtz
Elihu "Elye" Tenenholtz was born in the Russian hamlet of Azran, near the city of Rovne, in 1887 and came to the US at the age of ten. His first appearance in amateur Yiddish theatricals occurred in 1903, in staged readings of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, the first person to do that.
He augmented his theater appearances by writing for and editing a Yiddish satirical magazine under the pen-name "Moishe McCarthy". In 1916 he made the leap to the professional Yiddish stage and, befriended by the great doyenne Bessie Thomashevsky, helped her pen her memoirs, the first publication documenting a Yiddish actor's life. By 1920 he was appearing on both the Yiddish art stage with Maurice Schwartz and on Broadway, quickly rising to the top leadership of the Hebrew Actors' Union, the first arts union in America.
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1928
Show People
as Casting Director
The Ol' Gray Hoss
as Man with Sooty on Face
The Cardboard Lover
as Albine
Detectives
as Orloff
The Trail of '98
as Mr. Bulkey
Bringing Up Father
as Ginsberg Feitelbaum
The Garden of Eden
as Headwaiter at Palais de Paris (uncredited)
The Latest from Paris
as Abe Littauer
The Law of the Range
as Cohen
1927
1926
1925
