''The Personals'' (also known as ''The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years'') is a 1998 American

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directed by about a Jewish

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' theatre group in

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. In 1999, it won an

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at the

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Cast

* Gloria Bobrofsky as Performer * Abram Calderon as Performer * Deborah Ehrlich as Performer * Seth Glassman as Performer * Harold Gordon as Performer * Harold Krinsky as Performer * Ruth Krinsky as Performer * Moe Kronberg as Performer * Fred Schechter as Performer * Rose Straub as Performer * Shirley Tavel as Performer * Selma Wernick as Performer

References

External links

''The Personals''
at Fanlight Productions
''The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years''
at Icarus Films, parent of Fanlight Productions * 1998 films 1990s short documentary films American short documentary films American independent films Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Documentary films about theatre Documentary films about old age Documentary films about Jews and Judaism in the United States Documentary films about New York City 1998 independent films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{arts-documentary-film-stub