Muni Seroff ^People

His birth name was Haim Zilberang. Then he took the name Munia Serebroff, and later became Muni Seroff. Even during his high school years, he began to play in plays, the first role was that of Raskolnikov, in the play Crime and Punishment. During his student years, he began taking singing lessons, left university, and entered drama classes in Kharkov. He studied at the Moscow Art Theater, then trained in Italy. On his return to Russia, he joined the Grotesque Theater troupe as an actor, where he starred in Russian dramas and musicals, performed in operetta.After the revolutionary events of 1917, he returned to Bessarabia. He later leftfor Bucuresti and joined the band of Yankel Kalisz and Molly Picon. From that mo-ment on, he sang in various bands of the Jewish Yiddish theater, including Klara Jung'sband, with whom he toured in Romania, Central and Western Europe. In London,he joined the band of David Kessler, with whom in 1926, he moved to New York. He performed in several Jewish theaters on Second Avenue under the pseudonym MuniaSerebroff. In the late 1930s, she starred in several American Yiddish films, including I Want to Be a Mother, Two Sisters, American Matchmaker, and more. Under the pseudonym Muni Seroff starred in the films- The Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Two Senoritas of Chicago (1943), Charlie Chan in the Se- cret Service (1944), Call of the Jungle (1944) and several series.