The Jolson Story (Columbia) is a fine, noisy celebration of Hollywood’s two decades of talking movies. To the embarrassment of Warner Bros., currently whooping up the 20th anniversary of sound (which ...
In a play filled with lively music and spirited dialogue, the most stirring part of John Fredo's brilliant portrayal of Al Jolson comes with a moment of silence. It happens near the end of the first ...
In fact, it was so fascinating that by the time the movies got around to giving Jolie the biopic treatment in 1946 with The Jolson Story, the scenarists—probably with Jolson’s help—seem to have fused ...