Pinkus’s Shoe Palace

Name: Pinkus’s Shoe Palace
Uploaded: 2026-01-01T05:00:00Z
Duration: 45 min 7 s
Description: Among Ernst Lubitsch’s greatest successes with his comic screen persona known as either Sally or Meyer, a slapstick Jewish stereotype, was the following 1916 film, PINKUS’S SHOE PALACE. After he retired the Sally/Meyer character, Lubitsch, himself Jewish, didn’t feature an overtly Jewish character in his films until TO BE OR NOT TO BE.

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Among Ernst Lubitsch’s greatest successes with his comic screen persona known as either Sally or Meyer, a slapstick Jewish stereotype, was the following 1916 film, PINKUS’S SHOE PALACE. After he retired the Sally/Meyer character, Lubitsch, himself Jewish, didn’t feature an overtly Jewish character in his films until TO BE OR NOT TO BE.

To Be or Not to Be
19421 hr 39 min

Pinkus’s Shoe Palace

To Be or Not to Be