Un hombre de mediana edad que acaba de perder su empleo es ayudado económicamente por su mujer, que quiere divorciarse de él. Su padre le niega un préstamo y, desesperado, decide mudarse a Nueva York.
Joe Gideon, un famoso coreógrafo y director de Broadway y Hollywood, vive una vida marcada por los excesos de todas clases. Su corazón le da un primer aviso en forma de infarto y los doctores le previenen de que si no cambia de actitud su cuerpo no aguantará más. Pero Joe solo sabe vivir de una manera.
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.
Charles Fitzwilly es contratado como mayordomo por una rica viuda que tiene graves problemas económicos. Con el fin de ocultar esta situación y mantener su antiguo nivel de vida, se convierte en una ladrona. (FILMAFFINITY)
