Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
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85 minutes
6/16/2007
Overview
A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender. The film profiles Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as contemporary comedians Judy Gold and Jackie Hoffman.
Cast List
Anne Beatts
as Self
Fanny Brice
as Self (archive footage)
Tovah Feldshuh
as Self
Fyvush Finkel
as Self
Garry Giddens
as Self
Judy Gold
as Self
Jackie Hoffman
as Self
Cory Kahaney
as Self
Jessica Kirson
as Self
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
as Self
Molly Picon
as Self (archive footage)
Gilda Radner
as Self (archive footage)
Joan Rivers
as Self
Martin Short
as Self
Rosie Shuster
as Self
Treva Silverman
as Self
Sophie Tucker
as Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Turan
as Self
Wendy Wasserstein
as Self
Alan Zweibel
as Self