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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. Currently, there is a ...
20 de feb. de 2009 · In a new production, Jolson & Co – the Musical, to open at the King's theatre in Edinburgh, the pantomime star Allan Stewart will play Al Jolson. Controversy has erupted as the producers have ...
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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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.
5 de feb. de 2019 · Sheet music depicting white singer and comedian Al Jolson in blackface. When Southerners instituted a series of segregationist laws, poll taxes, ...
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.
1 de nov. de 2013 · A History Of Blackface In Films, In All Its Incarnations. 5. "The King and I" (1956)Despite his penchant for exaggerating his exotic Russian background, actor Yul Brynner was certainly not Asian when he took on the role as King Mongkut of Siam on Broadway and, eventually, the original film adaptation of "The King and I." Brynner would go on to reprise his role as King Mongkut for the rest of ...
