Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
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.
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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.
Anne Beatts
Self
Fanny Brice
Self (archive footage)
Tovah Feldshuh
Self
Fyvush Finkel
Self
Garry Giddens
Self
Judy Gold
Self
Jackie Hoffman
Self
Cory Kahaney
Self
Jessica Kirson
Self
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
Self
Molly Picon
Self (archive footage)
Gilda Radner
Self (archive footage)
Joan Rivers
Self
Martin Short
Self
Rosie Shuster
Self
Treva Silverman
Self
Sophie Tucker
Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Turan
Self
Wendy Wasserstein
Self
Alan Zweibel
Self