Ivan Abramson

Writing·Jan 1, 1869·Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire [now Lithuania]

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From Wikipedia Ivan Abramson (1869 - September 15, 1934) 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 the Jewish newspaper field. In 1905 he founded an opera company. In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films, with the Sins of the Parents as his first release. In 1917, after success with pictures including One Law for Both and Enlighten Thy Daughter, Abramson partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation. Abramson's films feature melodramas with titillating titles such as Forbidden Fruit (1915) and A Child for Sale (1920), and sexual hygiene films such as The Sex Lure (1916) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917). Abramson's alliance ended with the 1919 release of The Echo of Youth. 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. He was 65.

Film	Credit
LLying Wives1925 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
II Am the Man1924 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Meddling Women1924 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
East and West1923 · Director	Director
Wildness of Youth1922 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Mother Eternal1921 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
A Child for Sale1920 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Someone Must Pay1919 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Echo of Youth1919 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Ashes of Love1918 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
When Men Betray1918 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Moral Suicide1918 · Director	Director
Sins of Ambition1917 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
OOne Law for Both1917 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Enlighten Thy Daughter1917 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Sex Lure1916 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Her Surrender1916 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Faded Flower1916 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Immortal Flame1916 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The City of Illusion1916 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Forbidden Fruit1915 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director