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Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, Yiddish: אַסאַ יואלסאָן; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, [2] and was self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". [3]
Al Jolson Asa Yoelson ( Seredzius , Lituania , 26 de mayo de 1886- San Francisco, California , 23 de octubre de 1950) fue un cantante , actor , guionista y director de música estadounidense de origen ruso.
On April 16, 1908, Al Jolson took a major step in his life when he moved from Vaudeville to working with Dockstader's Minstrels. He took a pay cut to join the minstrels, but he know that it would likely pay off big, and he was right.
10 de oct. de 2024 · Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer By Richard Bernstein Knopf, 272 pages, $28. ... even among Black minstrel entertainers. May McAvoy and Al Jolson in ‘The Jazz Singer.’
From vaudeville to the cinema, Jolson brought his minstrel makeup kit with him. Although he frequently performed without burnt cork, it is the image of Jolson's black face and white-gloved outstretched palms that lives on in popular memory.
The Jolson Story is a 1946 American biographical musical film, a highly fictionalized account of the life of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as Julie Benson (approximating Jolson's wife, Ruby Keeler ), William Demarest as his performing partner and manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents ...
15 de jun. de 2013 · Jolson played only one historical role in films – other than himself, that is. Al’s characterization of E.P. Christy, the minstrel man of the 19th century, won critical praises and stole the show. That’s Don Ameche as Stephen Foster and Andrea Leeds as his long-suffering wife in the Technicolor production, SWANEE RIVER (1939):
