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Blackface. and Racism. When the name of Al Jolson is brought up, it is usually accompanied by a photograph of Jolson on one knee, with outstretched arms, in blackface. Jolson has become the defacto poster boy for blackface, and implicit with that, racism.
This single line, proclaimed by the 32-year-old Al Jolson, brought down the house, and before long the audience had all but forgotten about the great Caruso, as it responded to the man who was already being billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer." Almost a decade later, Jolson used the same line as part of his historic performance in "The ...
For quite a few years Al Jolson has slapped blackface makeup on his face for the stage and screen, but the Hawaiian sun did... Al Jolson with Wife Ruby Keeler Here we have Al Jolson, the world famous black-face comedian, enjoying the winter weather at Atlantic City, with his wife on the boardwalk.
The star of the show was a thirty-year-old singer, Al Jolson, a Lithuanian-born Jew who performed in blackface. In a 1927 interview, Raphaelson described the experience: "I shall never forget the first five minutes of Jolson—his velocity, the amazing fluidity with which he shifted from a tremendous absorption in his audience to a tremendous absorption in his song."
- October 6, 1927
- Darryl F. Zanuck
13 de feb. de 2019 · Al Jolson, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant who came to New York as a child, became one of the most influential blackface stars of the 20th century, including his 1927 hit film The Jazz Singer.
31 de ene. de 2023 · After footage of Al Jolson singing played, a reporter noted that the The Jazz Singer heralded a new era of “talking pictures,” without mentioning something that would be glaringly notable to audiences today: Al Jolson was in blackface.
By the early 1950s, Jolson’s blackface was a central figure of nostalgia in “American” mass culture, not only due to its role in the history of cinema from Singin’ in the Rain, but also in relation to the very popular new Jolson films of the late 1940s, The Al Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again, the latter being the top grossing film of 1949.
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