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851:, called to see if he was interested in the part. Cantor, a friend of Jessel's, responded that he was sure any differences with the actor could be worked out and offered his assistance. Cantor was not invited to participate in the Jessel talks; instead, the role was then offered to Jolson, who had inspired it in the first place. Describing Jolson as the production's best choice for its star, film historian Donald Crafton wrote, "The entertainer, who sang jazzed-up minstrel numbers in blackface, was at the height of his phenomenal popularity. Anticipating the later stardom of crooners and rock stars, Jolson electrified audiences with the vitality and sex appeal of his songs and gestures, which owed much to black american sources." As described by film historian Robert L. Carringer, "Jessel was a 1271: 1159:

prompted a loud, positive response from the audience, who were dumbfounded by seeing and hearing someone speak on a film for the first time, so much so that the double-entendre was missed at first. Applause followed each of his songs. Excitement built, and when Jolson and Eugenie Besserer began their dialogue scene, "the audience became hysterical." After the show, the audience turned into a "milling, battling, mob", in one journalist's description, chanting "Jolson, Jolson, Jolson!" Among those who reviewed the film, the critic who foresaw most clearly what it presaged for the future of cinema was

1283:", but Donald Crafton has shown that the reputation the film later acquired for being one of Hollywood's most enormous successes to date was inflated. The movie did well, but not astonishingly so, in the major cities where it was first released, garnering much of its impressive profits with long, steady runs in population centers large and small all around the country. As conversion of movie theaters to sound was still in its early stages, the film actually arrived at many of those secondary venues in a silent version. On the other hand, Crafton's statement that 975: 49: 1809: 1068:. In late June, Alan Crosland headed to New York City to shoot the Lower East Side and Winter Garden exteriors on location. Jolson joined the production in mid-July (his contract specified July 11). Filming with Jolson began with his silent scenes; the more complex Vitaphone sequences were primarily done in late August. Both Jolson and Zanuck would later take credit for thinking up the ad-libbed dialogue sequence between Jack and his mother; another story had it that 1448: 1173: 600: 1641:"provides the basic narrative for the lives of jazz and popular musicians in the movies. If this argument means that sometime after 1959 the narrative must belong to pop rockers, it only proves the power of the original 1927 film to determine how Hollywood tells the stories of popular musicians." More broadly, he also suggests that this "seemingly unique film" has "become a paradigm for American success stories." More specifically, he examines a cycle of 480: 1200:), has anything like the ovation been heard in a motion-picture theatre.... The Vitaphoned songs and some dialogue have been introduced most adroitly. This in itself is an ambitious move, for in the expression of song the Vitaphone vitalizes the production enormously. The dialogue is not so effective, for it does not always catch the nuances of speech or inflections of the voice so that one is not aware of the mechanical features. 1117: 797: 1795: 828:"was having a tough time with the financing of the company.... He talked about taking care of me if the picture was a success. I did not feel that was enough." In fact, around the beginning of 1927, Harry Warner—the eldest of the brothers who ran the eponymous studio—had sold $ 4 million of his personal stock to keep the studio solvent. Then came another major issue. According to Jessel, a first read of screenwriter 856:

invested some of his own money in the film. Jessel and Jolson, also friends, did not speak for some time after—on the one hand, Jessel had been confiding his problems with the Warners to Jolson; on the other, Jolson had signed with them without telling Jessel of his plans. In his autobiography, Jessel wrote that, in the end, Jolson "must not be blamed, as the Warners had definitely decided that I was out."

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Warner Brothers thesis is that, really to succeed, a man must first acknowledge his ethnic self," argues W. T. Lhamon. "he whole film builds toward the blacking-up scene at the dress rehearsal. Jack Robin needs the blackface mask as the agency of his compounded identity. Blackface will hold all the identities together without freezing them in a singular relationship or replacing their parts."

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was one of the few subjects that would lend itself to the use of the Vitaphone." In historian Richard Koszarski's words, "Silent films did not disappear overnight, nor did talking films immediately flood the theaters.... Nevertheless, 1927 remains the year that Warner Bros. moved to close the book on

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comedian and master of ceremonies with one successful play and one modestly successful film to his credit. Jolson was a superstar." Jolson took the part, signing a $ 75,000 contract on May 26, 1927, for eight weeks of services beginning in July. There have been several claims but no proof that Jolson

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But the plans to make the film with Jessel would fall through, for multiple reasons. Jessel's contract with Warner Bros. had not anticipated that the movie they had particularly signed him for would be made with sound (he'd made a modestly budgeted, silent comedy in the interim). When Warner had hits

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Afterward, Jack returns to the Rabinowitz home. He kneels at his father's bedside and the two converse fondly: "My son—I love you." Sara suggests that it may help heal his father if Jack takes his place at the Yom Kippur service. Mary arrives with the producer, who warns Jack that he'll never work on

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makeup, he and Mary discuss his career aspirations and the family pressures they agree he must resist. Sara and Yudelson come to Jack's dressing room to plead for him to come to his father and sing in his stead. Jack is torn. He delivers his blackface performance ("Mother of Mine, I Still Have You"),

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actually avoids honestly dealing with the tension between American assimilation and Jewish identity, he claims that its "covert message...is that the symbol of blackface provides the Jewish immigrant with the same rights and privileges accorded to earlier generations of European immigrants initiated

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Lisa Silberman Brenner contradicts this view. She returns to the intentions expressed by Samson Raphaelson, on whose play the film's script was closely based: "For Raphaelson, jazz is prayer, American style, and the blackface minstrel the new Jewish cantor. Based on the author's own words, the play

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The function and meaning of blackface in the film is intimately involved with Jack's own Jewish heritage and his desire to make his mark in mass American culture—much as the ethnically Jewish Jolson and the Warner brothers were doing themselves. Jack Robin "compounds both tradition and stardom. The

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is at the core of the film's central theme, an expressive and artistic exploration of the notion of duplicity and ethnic hybridity within American identity. Of the more than seventy examples of blackface in early sound film 1927–53 that I have viewed (including the nine blackface appearances Jolson

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At the theater, the opening night audience is told that there will be no performance. Jack sings the Kol Nidre in his father's place. His father listens from his deathbed to the nearby ceremony and speaks his last, forgiving words: "Mama, we have our son again." The spirit of Jack's father is shown

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That evening, the eve of Yom Kippur, Yudelson tells the Jewish elders, "For the first time, we have no Cantor on the Day of Atonement." Lying in his bed, weak and gaunt, Cantor Rabinowitz tells Sara that he cannot perform on the most sacred of holy days: "My son came to me in my dreams—he sang Kol

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Seymour Stark's view is less sanguine. In describing Jolson's extensive experience performing in blackface in stage musicals, he asserts, "The immigrant Jew as Broadway star...works within a blackface minstrel tradition that obscures his Jewish pedigree, but proclaims his white identity. Jolson's

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Each of Jolson's musical numbers was mounted on a separate reel with a separate accompanying sound disc. Even though the film was only eighty-nine minutes long...there were fifteen reels and fifteen discs to manage, and the projectionist had to be able to thread the film and cue up the Vitaphone

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According to Doris Warner, who was in attendance, about halfway through the film she began to feel that something exceptional was taking place. Suddenly, Jolson's face appeared in big close-up, and said "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet!" Jolson's "Wait a minute" line

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Back at the family home Jack left long ago, the elder Rabinowitz instructs a young student in the traditional cantorial art. Jack appears and tries to explain his point of view, and his love of modern music, but the appalled cantor banishes him: "I never want to see you again—you

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s take was virtually identical: "scarcely a motion picture. It should be more properly labeled an enlarged Vitaphone record of Al Jolson in half a dozen songs." The film received favorable reviews in both the Jewish press and in African American newspapers such as the

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is about blackface as a means for Jews to express a new kind of Jewishness, that of the modern American Jew." She observes that during the same period, the Jewish press was noting with pride that Jewish performers were adopting aspects of African American music.

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for full rather than split weeks. Instead of the traditional flat rental fee, Warners took a percentage of the gate. A sliding scale meant that the exhibitor's take increased the longer the film was held over. The signing of this contract by the greater New York

520:" Jack is unsure if he even can replace his father: "I haven't sung Kol Nidre since I was a little boy." His mother tells him, "Do what is in your heart, Jakie—if you sing and God is not in your voice—your father will know." The producer cajoles Jack: "You're a 430:. Moisha Yudelson spots the boy and tells Jakie's father, who drags him home. Jakie clings to his mother, Sara, as his father declares, "I'll teach him better than to debase the voice God gave him!" Jakie threatens: "If you whip me again, I'll run away—and 1933:

These figures apparently include earnings from the film's 1931 re-release. While no authoritative source has broken out those numbers from those of the initial release, even if they constitute as much as 25 percent of the total (a generous assumption),

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with Al Jolson was sweeping the country, and I was swept out of business. I couldn't compete with a picture theatre across the street showing the first great sound picture in the world...for fifty cents, while the price at my theatre was $ 3.00."

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called it a "pleasantly sentimental orgy dealing with a struggle between religion and art.... his is not essentially a motion picture, but rather a chance to capture for comparative immortality the sight and sound of a great performer." The

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contains those, as well as numerous synchronized singing sequences and some synchronized speech: Two popular tunes are performed by the young Jakie Rabinowitz, the future Jazz Singer; his father, a cantor, performs the devotional

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A few years later, pursuing a professional literary career, Raphaelson wrote "The Day of Atonement", a short story about a young Jew named Jakie Rabinowitz, based on Jolson's real life. The story was published in January 1922 in

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on Broadway, Jack's father falls gravely ill. Jack is asked to choose between the show and duty to his family and faith: in order to sing the Kol Nidre for Yom Kippur in his father's place, he will have to miss the big premiere.

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was $ 422,000 (approximately US$ 5.96 million in 2023 dollars), a large sum, especially for Warner Bros., which rarely spent more than $ 250,000. It was by no means a record for the studio, however; two features starring

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One of many alternative posters—this one designed for theaters charging 25 cents; the image of Jack in a suggestive nightrobe, carrying Mary, does appear in the film, shortly after he sees her perform for the first

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The premiere occurred on October 6, 1927, at Warner Bros.' flagship theater in New York City. In keeping with the film's theme of a conflict within a Jewish family, the film premiered after sunset on the eve of the

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Pierce states that it "seems likely that the gross numbers" he conveys are actually "income after deduction of distribution costs"; he says, as well, that it is unclear if the $ 2.64 million figure he reports for

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As the truly pivotal event, Crafton points to the national release of the film's sound version in early 1928—he dates it to January, Block and Wilson to February 4. In March, Warners announced that

1118: 531:"The season passes—and time heals—the show goes on." Jack, as "The Jazz Singer," is now appearing at the Winter Garden theater, apparently as the featured performer opening for a show called 1169:. He described the spoken dialogue scene between Jolson and Besserer as "fraught with tremendous significance.... I for one suddenly realized that the end of the silent drama is in sight". 882:. The film was preceded by a program of sound shorts, including a sequence with Griffith speaking directly to the audience, but the feature itself had no talking scenes. On April 15, 1923, 391: 1634:'s rabbi father disapproves of his son's choice to be a comedian, telling him, "You have brought shame on our family! Oh, if you were a musician or a jazz singer, this I could forgive." 991: 1046:, and exclaimed, "Folks, you ain't heard nothin' yet." The following year, he recorded the song "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet". In a later scene, Jack talks with his mother, played by 1595:. Its hero is "Owl Jolson", a young owl who croons popular ditties, such as the title song, against the wishes of his father, a classical music teacher. Among the many references to 1515:

of Europe and the ghettos of New York City, and the attendant hunger for recognition. Jack, Sam, and Harry let Jack Robin have it all: the satisfaction of taking his father's place

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as one of the best American films of all time, ranking at number ninety. The film's copyright expired on January 1, 2023, when all works published in the U.S. in 1927 entered the

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In total, the movie contains barely two minutes' worth of synchronized talking, much or all of it improvised. The rest of the dialogue is presented through the caption cards, or

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differ widely, but a survey of anecdotal accounts and a triangulation of box office claims combine to suggest—in accord with Purcell—that it was a slightly bigger smash than

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of conquering the Winter Garden. They were, perhaps unwittingly, dramatizing some of their own ambivalence about the debt first-generation Americans owed their parents."

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and Sara sees her son on stage for the first time. She has a tearful revelation: "Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there. He's not

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holiday. The buildup to the premiere was tense. Besides Warner Bros.' precarious financial position, the physical presentation of the film itself was remarkably complex:

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Similar arrangements, based on a percentage of the gross rather than flat rental fees, would soon become standard for the U.S. film industry's high-end or "A" product.

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is total or only domestic. Note that his article correctly dates the film as 1927 in its main text and incorrectly as 1926 in the relevant table. Reported figures for

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have a tear in your voice," she says, offering to help with his budding career. With her help, Jack eventually gets his big break: a leading part in the new musical

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Rabinowitz wants his 13-year-old son, Jacob "Jakie" Rabinowitz, to carry on the generations-old family tradition and become a cantor at the synagogue in the Jewish

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was playing at a record 235 theaters (though many could still show it only silently). In May, a consortium including the leading Hollywood studios signed up with

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According to Warner Bros records the film earned revenues of $ 1,974,000 in the United States and Canada, and $ 651,000 elsewhere, for a worldwide theatrical

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One of the keys to the film's success was an innovative marketing scheme conceived by Sam Morris, Warner Bros.' sales manager. In Crafton's description:

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production had been reconceived. Jessel asked for a bonus or a new contract, but was rebuffed. According to Jessel's description in his autobiography,

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Broadway again if he fails to appear on opening night. Jack can not decide. Mary challenges him: "Were you lying when you said your career came before

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at his side in the synagogue. Mary has come to listen. She sees how Jack has reconciled the division in his soul: "a jazz singer—singing to his God."

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service, Rabinowitz mournfully tells a fellow celebrant, "My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight—but now I have no son." As the sacred

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was in production, Harry Warner stopped taking a salary, pawned jewelry belonging to his wife, and moved his family into a smaller apartment.

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of Jolson's first onscreen speech and performance of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" (follow links: His Work–Films–The Jazz Singer–Toot, Toot, Tootsie)

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s success. At one point Donald O'Connor's character suggests a new name for the now-musical, "I've got it! 'The Dueling Mammy'." The plot of

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George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success

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greeted it with, 'We are inclined to wonder why we ever called them Living Pictures.'" The Paris sound premiere followed in January 1929.

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recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences). Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of

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era, this was not immediately apparent. Mordaunt Hall, for example, praised Warner Bros. for "astutely realiz that a film conception of

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review told a somewhat different story: "'Jazz Singer' Scores a Hit—Vitaphone and Al Jolson Responsible, Picture Itself Second Rate."

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cost $ 500,000 and was the most expensive picture in Warners history. Glancy's and Crafton's well-sourced figures belie those claims.

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The film had other effects that were more immediate. George Jessel, who was in his third season touring with the stage production of

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records very quickly. The least stumble, hesitation, or human error would result in public and financial humiliation for the company.

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of "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" motion pictures. In 1998, the film was chosen in voting conducted by the

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The phrase said by Al Jolson, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" was voted as the 71st best quote by the

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was impressed by Jolson's brief ad-libbing in the cabaret scene and had Cohn come up with some lines on the spot. On September 23,

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In contrast to the racial jokes and innuendo brought out in its subsequent persistence in early sound film, blackface imagery in

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as a blackface comedian, with his mother wildly applauding in the box. I raised hell. Money or no money, I would not do this."

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in his Broadway stage act—a common practice at the time, which is now widely condemned as racist—is the primary focus of many

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as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 1998, the film was chosen in voting conducted by the

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is unique in that it is the only film where blackface is central to the narrative development and thematic expression.

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still set a Warner Bros. record in its initial release and was one of the top films of the 1927–28 exhibition season.

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at $ 546,000. Nonetheless, the outlay constituted a major gamble in light of the studio's financial straits: while

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special clause in Warners' Vitaphone exhibition contract virtually guaranteed long runs. Theaters had to book

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The film depicts the fictional story of Jakie Rabinowitz, a young man who defies the traditions of his devout

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published a story in February 1927 announcing that production on the film would begin with Jessel on May 1.

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of approximately $ 2.6 million (the studio's share of the box office gross) and a profit of $ 1,196,750.

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called it "ndoubtedly the best thing Vitaphone has ever put on the screen... abundant power and appeal."

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Glancy (1995) . Both Schatz (1998), p. 63, and Gomery (2005), p. 44 (possibly relying on Schatz), claim

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as one of the best American films of all time, ranking at number ninety. In 2007, a three-disc deluxe

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became the first feature-length talking picture to be shown in Europe when it premiered at London's

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Scholar James Mark Purcell ranks the attendance of 1927's top three films in the following order:

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edition of the film was released. The supplemental material includes Jolson's Vitaphone short,

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Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation

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the history of silent pictures, even if their original goal had been somewhat more modest."

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Nidre so beautifully. If he would only sing like that tonight—surely he would be forgiven."

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his name to Jack Robin. Jack is called up from his table at a cabaret to perform on stage ("

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Glancy, H. Mark (1995). "Warner Bros. Film Grosses, 1921–51: The William Schaefer Ledger".

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The film developed into a major hit, demonstrating the profit potential of feature-length "

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ceremony was held in May 1929, honoring films released between August 1927 and July 1928,

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acquired the movie rights to the play on June 4, 1926, and signed Jessel to a contract.

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The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 Through 1932

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Radio and the Jews: The Untold Story of How Radio Influenced America's Image of Jews

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not since the first presentation of Vitaphone features, more than a year ago (i.e.

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The History of the British Film 1918–1929 (The History of British Film, Volume IV)

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and a University of Illinois undergraduate, attended a performance of the musical

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Jolson's first vocal performance, about fifteen minutes into the picture, is of "

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radio version originally broadcast on August 10, 1936; at the Internet Archive

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The spoken words that made movie history (over considerable crowd noise) and "

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Jessel (2006), p. 88. See also Bradley (2004), p. 6; Carringer (1979), p. 17.

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An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915–1928

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studies. Its crucial and unusual role is described by scholar Corin Willis:

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Jack Robin on stage, in a publicity shot representing the film's final scene

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is sung, Jakie sneaks back home to retrieve a picture of his loving mother.

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Low (1997), p. 203. It premiered the same month in Berlin, but as a silent.

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While Jolson was touring with a stage show during June 1927, production on

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the Outstanding Picture, Production and the Unique and Artistic Production

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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary

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Critical reaction was generally, though far from universally, positive.

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Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them

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film clip, with excerpt of "My Mammy" at 2:30; at the Internet Archive

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Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot

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While many earlier sound films had dialogue, all were short subjects.

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Brenner, Lisa Silberman (2003). "Blackface as Religious Expression".

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slight Yiddish accent was hidden by a Southern veneer." Arguing that

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The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926–1930

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implicitly celebrates the ambition and drive needed to escape the

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The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era

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Lusk, Norbert (October 16, 1927). "'Jazz Singer' Scores a Hit".

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in popular culture, perhaps the most significant is that of the

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as Cantor Rabinowitz, Jakie Rabinowitz’s (Jack Robin’s) father

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The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926–1931

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Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

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as Sara Rabinowitz, Jakie Rabinowitz’s (Jack Robin’s) mother

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Style And Meaning: Studies In The Detailed Analysis Of Film

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was parodied as early as 1936, in the Warner Bros. cartoon

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was among the three biggest box office hits, trailing only

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was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of

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Though in retrospect it is understood that the success of

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Broadway: Its History, People, and Places—An Encyclopedia

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reported that production on the film had been completed.

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for producing the film; Alfred A. Cohn was nominated for

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This article is about the 1927 film. For other uses, see

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and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first

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None of the four Warner brothers were able to attend:

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Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities

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List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

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Jack wows the crowd with his energized rendition of "

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Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema

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Jessel (2006), p. 88. See also Bradley (2004), p. 7.

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circuit was regarded as a headline-making precedent.

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Men in Blackface: True Stories of the Minstrel Show

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