#al jolson

[wordfromoursponsor]

NBC Network Advertisers: New faces on the network of the stars (1947)

#vintage #retro #advertising #radio #1940s #old time radio #jimmy durante #frank sinatra #al jolson #garry moore #jack carson #eddie dowling #bob hawk

[springfieldstills]

#The Simpsons #season 4 #Marge Gets a Job #mr. burns #Waylon Smithers #Al Jolson

[vintage-every-day]

Newlyweds Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler aboard the Olympic in September 1928.

#vintage #old hollywood #golden era #ruby keeler #al jolson

[frenchcurious]

Al Jolson, avec sa femme Ruby Keeler et leur Mercedes-Benz Model S Tourer de 1928. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

#al jolson #ruby keeler #mercedes-benz #tourer

[friendlessghoul]

Since his divorce from Natalie Talmadge, Buster Keaton has been stepping high wide and 'andsome in the night places. This time was Mae Scriven. - Modern Screen 1933

#buster keaton #1930s #1910s #1920s #1920s hollywood #silent film #silent comedy #silent cinema #silent era #silent movies #pre code #pre code hollywood #pre code film #pre code era #pre code movies #damfino #damfinos #vintage hollywood #black and white #buster edit #old hollywood #slapstick #mae scriven #Marie Dressler #Polly Moran #Al Jolson #Joan Crawford #Claudette Colbert #connie bennett #katherine hepburn

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jack Dempsey, left, with Al Jolson, who visited the Dempsey headquarters, August 11, 1920. The world champ was training for his upcoming bout with K.O. Brennan. After looking Al over, Jack decided there was no possibility of danger and took him on for a few rounds. Al survived.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #Jack Dempsey #Al Jolson #August 11 #11 August #11 Aug. #Aug. 11 #boxing #vintage boxing

[citizenscreen]

Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950)

#al jolson

[oldshowbiz]

The Strange Truth about Al Jolson.

#Al Jolson #Irving Caesar #shubert #vaudeville #blackface

[statecryptids]

When they say “boys will be boys”, this is what they mean.

#al jolson #gay #woo! #Youtube

[gatutor]

Al Jolson-Dolores del Río "Wonder Bar" 1934, de Lloyd Bacon.

#Dolores del Río #Al Jolson #Lloyd Bacon

[postcard-from-the-past]

Marion Nixon, Al Jolson and Davey Lee on a vintage postcard

#tarjeta #postkaart #sepia #al jolson #davey #historic #photo #lee #postal #briefkaart #photography #vintage #ephemera #marion nixon #marion #ansichtskarte #old #postcard #nixon #al #jolson #postkarte #carte postale #davey lee

[thesobsister]

"I Want to Be a Minstrel Man," Kid Millions (1934)

This sequence, which TW: features a glimpse of star Eddie Cantor applying the burnt cork for his blackface appearance, features a very young Harold Nicholas (his older brother Fayard joins him in a different part of the sequence) singing and dancing like a pro, as well he might've done, given that he had been performing professionally since he was 5 years old.

It's actually unusual, I think, to see him as the centerpiece of this bit, with white Goldwyn Girls dancing around him as they would for a white singing star. Maybe the fact that he was a kid made him unthreatening in a way that a Black man could never be in the audience's eyes.

Blink, and you'll miss Lucille Ball as a Goldwyn Girl in this number. But the film features a pretty good cast besides her and the Nicholas Brothers, including a great turn by Ethel Merman as a grifter posing as Cantor's mother, and Ann Sothern and George Murphy as the romantic leads.

Click above for a 45-page pressbook issued for this film. Quite remarkable in its comprehensiveness of press and promotional material available to media and exhibitors.

#movie musical #eddie cantor #nicholas brothers #ethel merman #ann sothern #between #cantor and #al jolson #there sure was some love of #blackface #and throw #bing crosby #in there too #Youtube

[vintage-every-day]

Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson at the Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, 1937.

#vintage #old hollywood #golden era #ruby keeler #al jolson

[frenchcurious]

L'acteur et chanteur Al Jolson avec sa Mercedes-Benz Model S Tourer 1928. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

#al jolson #mercedes-benz

[jerrylewis-thekid]

Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody Al Jolson - Dean Martin - Jerry Lewis

#Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody #al jolson #dean martin #jerry lewis #comparison #do we all agree that Jerry had a wider vocal range and a more powerful voice than Dean's? #jerry he did not have a traditionally “beautiful” voice but could sing #Youtube

[travsd]

A Longer Look at Larry Parks

Among those few who’ve even heard the name Larry Parks (1914-1975) there is a tendency to know just two or three things: that he made a big splashed playing Al Jolson in The Jolson Story (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949); that he was purportedly blacklisted after testifying to HUAC in 1951; and (if you’re a major showbiz buff) that he was married to the better remembered Betty Garrett. I try…

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#actor #Al Jolson #blacklist #communist #HUAC #Jolson Sings Again #Jolson Story #Larry Parks #left wing #performer #Red Scare #star