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The Jolson Story

Index The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 Technicolor musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. [1]

68 relations: About a Quarter to Nine, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals, After the Ball (song), Al Jolson, Alfred E. Green, American burlesque, American Film Institute, Andrew Solt, April Showers (song), Avalon (Al Jolson song), Ave Maria (Schubert), Bill Goodwin, Black and white, By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song), California, Here I Come, Columbia Pictures, Edwin Maxwell (actor), Ernest Cossart, Evelyn Keyes, Film poster, Harry Cohn, I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad), I'm Sitting on Top of the World, Jo-Carroll Dennison, John Alexander (actor), John P. Livadary, Jolson Sings Again, Joseph H. Lewis, Joseph Walker (cinematographer), Larry Parks, Lew Dockstader, Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away), Ludwig Donath, Lux Radio Theatre, Mammy archetype, Morris Stoloff, My Mammy, Ned Scott, On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, Oscar Hammerstein I, Robert Mitchell (organist), Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, Ruby Keeler, ..., Scotty Beckett, Sidney Buchman, Sidney Skolsky, Stephen Longstreet, Swanee (song), Tamara Shayne, Technicolor, The Jazz Singer, The Spaniard That Blighted My Life, There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder, Variety (magazine), Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Waves of the Danube, When You Were Sweet Sixteen, William Demarest, William Lyon (film editor), You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It), 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Expand index (18 more) »

About a Quarter to Nine

"About a Quarter to Nine" is a popular song written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and published in 1935 by M. Witmark & Son, New York.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema.

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After the Ball (song)

After the Ball is a popular song written in 1891 by Charles K. Harris.

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Al Jolson

Al or Albert Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c.1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor.

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Alfred E. Green

Alfred Edward Green (July 11, 1889 – September 4, 1960) was an American movie director.

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American burlesque

American burlesque is a genre of variety show.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Andrew Solt

Andrew Solt (born 13 December 1947) is an American producer, director, and writer of documentary films.

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April Showers (song)

"April Showers" is a popular song with music written by Louis Silvers and lyrics by B. G. De Sylva.

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Avalon (Al Jolson song)

"Avalon" is a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose referencing Avalon, California.

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Ave Maria (Schubert)

"" ("", D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6, 1825), in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Opus 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German.

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Bill Goodwin

William Nettles Goodwin (July 28, 1910 – May 9, 1958),, pscemetery.com; accessed June 20, 2017.

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Black and white

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts.

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By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song)

"By The Light of the Silvery Moon" or "By the Light of the Silv'ry Moon" is a popular song.

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California, Here I Come

"California, Here I Come" is a song written for the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, starring Al Jolson.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Edwin Maxwell (actor)

Edwin Maxwell (9 February 1886 – 13 August 1948) was an Irish character actor in Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, frequently cast as shady businessmen and shysters, though often ones with a dignified bearing.

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Ernest Cossart

Ernest Cossart (born Emil Gottfried von Holst, 24 September 1876 – 21 January 1951) was an English-American actor.

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Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress.

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Film poster

A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film.

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Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was the co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.

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I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)

I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) (sometimes shortened to "I Want A Girl") is a popular song of 1911 composed by Harry Von Tilzer and with lyrics by William Dillon, which has become a barbershop quartet standard.

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I'm Sitting on Top of the World

"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular song with music written by Ray Henderson and lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young.

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Jo-Carroll Dennison

Jo-Carroll Dennison (born December 16, 1923) was Miss America 1942.

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John Alexander (actor)

John Alexander (November 29, 1897 – July 13, 1982) was an American stage, film and television actor.

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John P. Livadary

John Paul Livadary (born 20 May 1896, Istanbul, Turkey, died 7 April 1987, Newport Beach, California, USA) was a sound designer.

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Jolson Sings Again

Jolson Sings Again is a 1949 American musical biographical film directed by Henry Levin, and the sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.

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Joseph H. Lewis

Joseph H. Lewis (April 6, 1907 – August 30, 2000) was an American B-movie film director whose stylish flourishes came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement in 1966.

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Joseph Walker (cinematographer)

Joseph Walker, A.S.C. (August 22, 1892 – August 1, 1985) was an American cinematographer who worked on 145 films during a career that spanned 33 years.

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Larry Parks

Larry Parks (December 13, 1914 – April 13, 1975) was an American stage and movie actor.

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Lew Dockstader

Lew Dockstader (August 7, 1856 – October 26, 1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer.

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Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)

"Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

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Ludwig Donath

Ludwig Donath (6 March 1900 in Vienna – 29 September 1967 in New York City), was an Austrian actor who appeared in many American films.

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Lux Radio Theatre

Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).

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Mammy archetype

A mammy, also spelled mammie, is a Southern United States stereotype for a black woman who worked as a nanny or general housekeeper and, often in a white family, nursed the family's children.

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Morris Stoloff

Morris Stoloff (1 August 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a musical composer.

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My Mammy

"My Mammy" is an American popular song with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis.

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Ned Scott

Ned Scott (April 16, 1907 – November 24, 1964) was an American photographer who worked in the Hollywood film industry as a still photographer from 1935-1948.

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On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away

"On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" was among the best-selling songs of the 19th century, earning over $100,000 from sheet-music revenues.

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Oscar Hammerstein I

Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 18461 August 1919) was a German-born businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City.

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Robert Mitchell (organist)

Robert Mitchell (October 12, 1912 – July 4, 2009) was an American organist and choir director whose career spanned 85 years, from 1924 to 2009.

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Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody

"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" is a popular song written by Jean Schwartz, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young.

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Ruby Keeler

Ethel Ruby Keeler (August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993) billed professionally as Ruby Keeler, was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer most famous for her on-screen pairing with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street (1933).

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Scotty Beckett

Scott Hastings "Scotty" Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968) was an American actor.

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Sidney Buchman

Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was an American screenwriter and producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.

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Sidney Skolsky

Sidney Skolsky (2 May 1905 – 3 May 1983) was an American writer best known as a Hollywood gossip columnist.

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Stephen Longstreet

Stephen Longstreet (April 18, 1907 – February 20, 2002) was an American author.

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Swanee (song)

"Swanee" is an American popular song written in 1919 by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Irving Caesar.

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Tamara Shayne

Tamara Shayne (25 November 1902 – 23 October 1983, also known as Tamara Nikoulin) was a Russian-born actress long resident in the United States.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film.

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The Spaniard That Blighted My Life

"The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" is a comic song which was composed and first performed by English music-hall performer Billy Merson.

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There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder

"There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" is a 1928 song sung by Al Jolson in the early Warner Bros. talking picture The Singing Fool the same year.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

"Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" is an American popular song written in 1912, with music by Lewis F. Muir and lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert.

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Waves of the Danube

"Waves of the Danube" (Valurile Dunării; Дунавски валови/Dunavski valovi; Donauwellen; Flots du Danube; Дунайские волны) at naxos.com is a waltz composed by Ion Ivanovici in 1880, and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world.

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When You Were Sweet Sixteen

"When You Were Sweet Sixteen" is a popular song, written by James Thornton and published in 1898.

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William Demarest

Carl William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 27, 1983) was an American character actor, known for playing Uncle Charley in My Three Sons.

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William Lyon (film editor)

William A. Lyon (January 21, 1903 – March 18, 1974) was an American film editor, from 1935 to 1971.

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You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)

"You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" is a popular song.

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1947 Cannes Film Festival

The 2nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 25 September 1947.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jolson_Story

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