LATER IT would be popularly imagined that “The Jazz Singer,” a treacly little tale of a cantor’s son who broke his father’s heart, was Jolson’s own life story. It wasn’t – Jolson got ...

the bio-pic “The Jolson Story,” was one of the blockbusters hits of its day (1946), engineering what was then considered the greatest comeback in theatrical history. Jolson’s prime-time ...

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 ...

After “The Jolson Story” was released in 1946, it ultimately found its way to the local neighborhood theaters. At that time, I was a teenager working at the Loews Victoria theater, which was a ...

In some ways, the plot mirrored the life story of Jolson, the Lithuanian-born son of Moses Yoelson, an Orthodox cantor who emigrated to Washington, D.C. The movie earned $3.5 million and saved ...

to his evolution into an icon in the biopic “The Jolson Story” — the show takes the performer’s own perspective, translating every success into a validation of his personal worth.

When Jolson's career was all but over in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures decided to film the story of his life, which became the 1947 classic, The Jolson Story (followed in 1949 by a successful ...

“The Jolson Story,” we’re told it’s because, though Jolson is a great singer, he’s not a great actor. This musical suffers from much the same problem. Whether the shortcoming lies with ...

Here's my story about how it happened. The 18th Long Island Al Jolson Festival coming up on August 16 is a whole-day affair featuring film presentations, lectures, memorabilia displays and ...

A movie, “The Jolson Story” (Internet: “the Jolson Story”), 1946. Only one of his popular acts during his career was using “blackface,” getting down on one knee and singing “Mammy ...