Ivan Abramson

In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films, with Sins of the Parents as the first release. In 1917, after success with pictures including One Law for Both and Enlighten Thy Daughter, he partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation (GFC). Abramson's films are often melodramas with titillating titles such as Forbidden Fruit (1915) and A Child for Sale (1920), and sexual hygiene films such as The Sex Lure (1916) and Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917). Abramson often aimed to make a moral argument with his films. He stated that the intention of his films was to "point out an evil in life through one character and at the same time show the manner in which that evil might be cured through another character." The GFC ended with the 1919 release of The Echo of Youth. In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed East and West, filmed in Austria and starring Molly Picon, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles. Abramson died on September 15, 1934, in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.

• Name — Ivan Abramson • Born — 1869 • Birthplace — Russia • Died — September 15, 1934 1869 • Place of death — Manhattan, New York City, New York

• Illustration — The Sex Lure (1916) • Sins of the Parents (1914) • Should a Woman Divorce? (writer/producer) (1914) • A Mother's Confession (1915) • Forbidden Fruit (1915) • The Sex Lure (1916) • A Fool's Paradise (1916) • One Law for Both (1917) • Sins of Ambition (1917) • Married in Name Only (1917) (writer) • Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917) • When Men Betray (1918) • Ashes of Love (1918) • The Echo of Youth (1919) • A Child for Sale (1920) • Wildness of Youth (1922) • East and West (1923) • I Am the Man (1924) • Meddling Women (1924) • Illustration — Her Husband's Wife (1916)