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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Myrna Loy, May McAvoy, John Miljan, Roscoe Karns, Eugenie Besserer, Anders Randolf, Audrey Ferris, Carolynne Snowden, Warner Oland, Joseph Green, Marie Stapleton, Jane Arden ...MORE

Cast: Myrna Loy, May McAvoy, John Miljan, Roscoe Karns, Eugenie Besserer, Anders Randolf, Audrey Ferris, Carolynne Snowden, Warner Oland, Joseph Green, Marie Stapleton, Jane Arden, Marge Champion, Richard Tucker, Neely Edwards, Al Jolson, Josele Rosenblatt, Margaret Oliver, Will Walling, Ena Gregory, Nat Carr, Otto Lederer, Mary Grace Larsen, William Demarest, Claire Delmar, Violet Bird ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Part-Talkie, Black-And-White, Musical, Drama Film

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. Directed by Alan Crosland, it is based on a play by Samson Raphaelson. The story begins with young Jakie Rabinowitz defying the traditions of his devout Jewish family by singing popular tunes in a beer hall. Punished by his father, a cantor, Jakie... MORE

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. Directed by Alan Crosland, it is based on a play by Samson Raphaelson. The story begins with young Jakie Rabinowitz defying the traditions of his devout Jewish family by singing popular tunes in a beer hall. Punished by his father, a cantor, Jakie runs away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a talented jazz singer. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage. On April 25, 1917, Samson Raphaelson, a native of New York City's Lower East Side and a University of Illinois undergraduate, attended a performance of the musical Robinson Crusoe, Jr. in Champaign, Illinois. The star of the show was a thirty-year-old singer, Al Jolson, a Russian-born Jew who performed in blackface. In a 1927 interview, LESS