premise: Back in the 1920s , the play and movie versions of `` Abie 's Irish Rose '' made the theme of courtship between the assimilated offspring of Jewish and Irish immigrants so popular that its author , Anne Nichols , lost a plagiarism suit on the grounds that the plot has entered the public domain .
hypothesis: The play and movie versions of `` Abie 's Irish Rose '' made physical contact with someone or something else involved in the making.