FAINT LAVENDER The Jolson Story By JAY MAEDER EVEN AS Al Jolson's triumphant comeback as a radio star was wowing everybody in the late '30s, one still usually spoke of the old duck in the past tense.

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). There's more to Jolson story - Los Angeles Times ...

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, ...

The Jolson Story emerges as an American success story in song. The yearning to sing to give generously of himself, cued by the still famed-in showbiz catchphrase, ‘You ain’t heard nothin ...

Jolson story features stop in Baltimore Entertainer: The son of an Orthodox rabbi, the musical star spent time as a youth at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys.

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 ...

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 (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 ...

The plot had originated in Raphaelson’s short story “Day of Atonement,” which was inspired by Jolson’s much-reported defiance ...

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, ...