"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 standards, ...
Jolson's singing proves the big excitement for this Technicolorful film biog of the great mammy-singer's career. The Jolson Story emerges as an American success story in song. The yearning to sing to ...
Don Shirley’s commentary on Al Jolson’s life and career simply flies in the face of facts (“Let Sleeping Eras and Their Stars Lie,” May 15). He left out significant components of Jolson’s successful ...
A few music lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al Jolson’s name came up. A notable musician and scribe remarked: “I wear headphones when I play his records because people might ...
On the face of it, Jolson and Company, the latest biographical musical presented by the Coconut Grove Playhouse, should be dead on arrival. Its subject, Al Jolson, became a star before World War I, ...
"A Tribute To Al Jolson" The International Al Jolson Society's 2004 Long Island Jolson Festival, Saturday, Nov. 13, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Knights of Columbus, 2985 Kenneth Pl., Oceanside. Tickets are ...
He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he also starred in. By Richard Sandomir A Broadway comeback is a box-office ...
If Al Jolson wasn't the meanest, nastiest, most self-centered performer in show business, he campaigned hard for the title. If Stephen Mo Hanan's eerie musical impersonation of the legendary ...
Al Jolson wasn't the first choice to star in "The Jazz Singer," even though it was inspired by a Jolson concert and is partially based on his life story. But when the actor chosen for the lead role, ...
The Jolson Story (Columbia) is a fine, noisy celebration of Hollywood’s two decades of talking movies. To the embarrassment of Warner Bros., currently whooping up the 20th anniversary of sound (which ...
On the face of it, Jolson and Company, the latest biographical musical presented by the Coconut Grove Playhouse, should be dead on arrival. Its subject, Al Jolson, became a star before World War I, ...
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