The 1930 movie musical “Mammy" is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson's career. “Mammy" stars “The World's Greatest Entertainer" ...

MINSTREL shows have never been my favorite form of entertainment. The elaborate ritual of this species of amusement, the very bigness of them, and the traditional pronouncement of their jests would ...

Al Jolson lived "The American Dream." Born in Lithuania, Jolson rose through the ranks of vaudeville as a comedian and a blackface "Mammy" singer. By 1920, he had become the biggest star on Broadway, ...

Saw the ad for the Chicago International Film Festival in the Reader [October 11], and while I agree the Lewis Milestone-Al Jolson movie is a classic, the picture you published is not from Hallelujah, ...

Simultaneously one of the most significant and most embarrassing show business figures of the 20th century, Al Jolson was a ferociously charismatic entertainer, among the first to realize that ...

IF you have ever enjoyed Al Jolson on the stage you had better run up at once to the Winter Garden and see him in “The Singing Fool.” If you don’t like him—there are strange people in this world—don’t ...

The late Al Jolson – who often sang “Mammy” while wearing blackface – was dragged yesterday into the debate over a move to name a street after a rabble-rousing black activist. City Councilman Charles ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This sheet music is for the song “My ...

EVEN AS Al Jolson’s triumphant comeback as a radio star was wowing everybody in the late ’30s, one still usually spoke of the old duck in the past tense. “He was to popular show business what Dempsey ...