May McAvoy is a Actor American born on 6 september 1899 at New York City (USA)
May McAvoy
May McAvoy participated to
58 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
1 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actress
, 1h30
Directed by Alan Crosland,
Gordon HollingsheadOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about religion,
Théâtre,
Jazz films,
Musical films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on playsActors Al Jolson,
May McAvoy,
Warner Oland,
Eugenie Besserer,
Myrna Loy,
Otto LedererRoles Mary Dale
Rating63%
Cantor Rabinowitz wants his son to carry on the generations-old family tradition and become a cantor at the synagogue in the Jewish ghetto of Manhattan's Lower East Side. But down at the beer garden, thirteen-year-old Jakie Rabinowitz is performing so-called jazz tunes. Moisha Yudelson spots the boy and tells Jakie's father, who drags him home. Jakie clings to his mother, Sara, as his father declares, "I'll teach him better than to debase the voice God gave him!" Jakie threatens: "If you whip me again, I'll run away — and never come back!" After the whipping, Jakie kisses his mother goodbye and, true to his word, runs away. At the Yom Kippur service, Rabinowitz mournfully tells a fellow celebrant, "My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight – but now I have no son." As the sacred Kol Nidre is sung, Jakie sneaks back home to retrieve a picture of his loving mother.