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We mark the death on October 23, 1950 – 73 years ago today – of the Lithuanian-American singer and actor Al Jolson. Born “Asa Yoelson” on May 26, 1886, in th...
Al Jolson «In Blackface». La primera película con sonido sincronizado se estrenó en Nueva York el 6 de octubre de 1927 con el título de “The Jazz Singer”. El protagonista del film fue Al Jolson, un cantante de origen judío que se pintó la cara de negro, se puso una peluca de pelo rizado y unos guantes blancos.
6 de feb. de 2019 · Blackface has a long Jewish history. The practice originated in the late 1820s, with white male performers portraying African-American characters by applying burnt cork to their faces; these ...
2 de feb. de 2019 · Al Jolson performed in blackface in “The Jazz Singer,” a hit film in 1927, and American actors like Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney put on blackface in movies too.
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10 de feb. de 2019 · In 1918, Jolson wrote an essay trying to persuade readers that — compared to old Irish minstrel men — he had made blackface more subtle, nuanced, and less prejudiced.
8 de feb. de 2019 · Blackface has been a constant in American culture going all the way back to the country's founding. It's one of those inconvenient facts of U.S. history: a white supremacist cultural building block.
The Jolson Story, a landmark Hollywood musical biography, brought has-been blackface singer Al Jolson one of show business' great comebacks, made a star of Larry Parks, the young "B" movie actor who played him, and spawned a sequel. For the first time, McClelland tells the story of how these films were made.
