Al Jolson and the Jazz Singer, published by Alfred A. Knopf. As he points out in this fast-moving and absorbing volume, Jolson was part of a cohort of entertainers whose roots were in Eastern ...

Al Jolson, Biggest Star on Broadway in His Day ... Such a theory would help explain Harlem’s response to “The Jazz Singer,” which ends with Jolson singing “Mammy” in blackface.

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie that incorporated synchronized speaking parts for its actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927. Primitive by today’s ...

remove within three days the Al Jolson film, “The Jazz Singer.” The paper calls the picture a “nauseating all-Jewish propaganda film.” If Hugenberg doesn’t comply with this request the ...

Upon receiving a copy of Richard Bernstein’s “Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer,” I thought: He wouldn’t say that today because few people under 60 know the voice or care.

May McAvoy and Al Jolson in ‘The Jazz Singer.’ Photo by Getty Images By the time Jolson was headlining shows on Broadway, blackface was an integral part of his act including a Black character ...

Jolson, personally, has never been more warmly greeted than at this premiere. He was there, in person, also. But “The Jazz Singer” minus Vitaphone is sometblng else again. There’s really no ...

Goldwyn told the New York Times that the success of The Jazz Singer was largely due to Al Jolson, and warned “that the industry is suffering from hysteria and that if producers were not careful ...

From the early 1910s to the late 1940s, Bernstein writes, “there was nobody…bigger than Al Jolson ... Neither Jolson nor blackface disappeared after “The Jazz Singer.” ...

Al Jolson lived “The American Dream ... but he is probably best remembered for his film career. He starred in THE JAZZ SINGER (1927), the first talking movie ever made, and his legend ...