Anna Berger,
Carol Kane,
Ed Crowley,
Mel Howard,
Paul Freedman
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Hester Street is a delightfully quaint film about the assimilation of Jewish immigrants in America in the late 1800s. Steven Keats is Jake, a self-made Yankee who has shaved his beard and side curls i...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 21, 2004
Stats: 19 reviews
Watch the scene where Jake tries to yank the sheitel (wig) off his wife's (Gitl's) head - and finds out, to his shock, that the frizzy hair is actually her own!
While all the plaudits are directed toward Carol Kane's performance as "Gitl" in "Hester Street," let's not forget
the highly talented Steven Keats.
Keats, a graduate of both the New York High School for the Performing Arts and Yale's School of Drama, had a career spanning the 70's through the mid-90's, including his fine performances in "Hester Street," "Seventh Avenue," (for which he received a 1977 Emmy nomination) and "The Executioner's Song."
Keats, also a prolific television actor, was especially outstanding in an episode of "Kojak" called "Therapy in Dynamite," in which he played the psychotic Danny Zucco, a New York City hardware store clerk who "avenges" his friends in a therapy group by seeking out, and blowing
up, anyone who has "offended" them (and him.)
Steven Keats appeared in over 80 TV shows and movies,
and was a regular on the daytime soap opera "Another World" when, inexplicably, Steven Keats was found dead on May 8, 1994, at the age of 48 - an apparent suicide.
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