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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).
The film stars Neil Diamond (in his acting debut), Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz, and tells the story of a young singer who is torn between tradition and pursuing his dreams as a pop singer. Based on the 1925 play of the same title by Samson Raphaelson , it is the fourth film adaptation, following the 1927 and the 1952 theatrical adaptions ...
The Jazz Singer is a 1952 remake of the famous 1927 talking picture The Jazz Singer. It stars Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz, and was nominated for an Oscar for best musical score. The film follows about the same storyline as the version starring Al Jolson. It was also distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The Jazz Singer is a play written by Samson Raphaelson, based on his short story "The Day of Atonement". Producers Albert Lewis and Max Gordon staged it on Broadway, where it debuted at the Fulton Theatre in 1925. A highly influential movie adaptation was released in 1927.
Bobby Gordon in The Jazz Singer (1927) at age 14, as a child actor. Robert Gordon (August 21, 1913 in Pittsburgh – December 1, 1990 in Los Angeles) was an American director and actor. [1] His acting career, in which he was usually credited as Bobby Gordon, began in 1923 while he was a child, and continued through 1939.
Featured Cast Genre Note Jake the Plumber: Edward Ludwig: Jesse De Vorska, Sharon Lynn: Comedy: FBO: Jaws of Steel: Ray Enright: Rin Tin Tin, Jason Robards Sr., Helen Ferguson: Adventure: Warner Bros. The Jazz Singer: Alan Crosland: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland: Drama: Warner Bros. First feature length "talkie"; 1 Academy Award ...
Frederick Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director. He is noted for having directed the first feature film using spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer (1927) and the first feature movie with sychronization soundtrack, Don Juan (1926).
He shared the screen with the real Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. Demarest also received an Emmy nomination for the 1968–1969 season of My Three Sons as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Role . Demarest has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures, bestowed upon him on August 8, 1979 by the Hollywood ...