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The Jazz Singer, 1927. Al Jolson

A cantor's son breaks with family tradition to go into show business.

The Jazz Singer, 1927. Al Jolson

Movie Posters:Musical, The Jazz Singer (Warner Brothers, 1929). German Poster (37.25" X66") Lapiner Artwork.. ...

Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927)

The Jazz Singer, 1927

The birth of sound movies, Yom Kippur and Kol Nidre: Al Jolson portrayed a singing Rabbi's son in The Jazz Singer. By Byron Toben

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama b/w film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era. It was produced by Warner Bros. with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system and features six songs performed by Al Jolson.

German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4940/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Warner Bros. / National. Al Jolson and Davey Lee in The Singing Fool (Lloyd Bacon, 1928). Davey Lee (1924–2008) was an American child actor, who appeared in six films between 1928 and 1930. At the age of three he made his debut in one of the early talkies The Singing Fool (Lloyd Bacon, 1928) starring Al Jolson, in which he played the part of Sonny Boy. The Singing Fool remained the most successful film until Gone with the Wind…

Eugenie Besserer and Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927)

The night that changed moviegoing forever. Warner Theater on Broadway, 1929.

This couple, dining at a sidewalk cafe in Athens, Greece, probably hadn’t counted on needing quite so many place settings for their dinner guests. (There are 17 cats in the painting.) These “hosts” were quite gracious in spite of the unannounced arrivals!

Good old times

Opened as the Piccadilly Theatre on September 27, 1924, the architects were Newton L. Schloss and Joseph Orlando (associate architects). It was bu...