Movies: Al Jolson
- 1990
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
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After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girl...
- 1927
The Jazz Singer (1927)
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A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical....
- 1934
Wonder Bar (1934)
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Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris...
- 1943
Show-Business at War (1943)
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A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
- 2007
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
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Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies....
- 1939
Swanee River (1939)
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Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of...
- 1936
The Singing Kid (1936)
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Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines....
- 1930
Mammy (1930)
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another (Lowell Sherman). Sherman is shot onstage as part...
- 1928
The Singing Fool (1928)
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After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway succ...
- 1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
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Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression....
- 1933
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
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A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt....
- 1937
A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
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Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races....
- 1935
Go Into Your Dance (1935)
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An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters....
- 1929
Say It with Songs (1929)
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Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. J...
- 1946
The Jolson Story (1946)
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At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a bl...
- 1982
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
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While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film...
- 1945
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
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Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway....
- 1929
New York Nights (1929)
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Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill end...
- 1939
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
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Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound....
- 1950
The Golden Twenties (1950)
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Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures....