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...
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he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with The Jolson Story (1946)...
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Jolson Sings Again is a 1949 American musical biographical film directed by Henry Levin, and the sequel to The Jolson Story (1946), both of which cover...
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Larry Parks (category Members of the Communist Party USA)
role was Al Jolson, whom he portrayed in two films: The Jolson Story (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949). Parks was born in Olathe, Kansas, the son of Nellie...
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try his luck on the stage. Adolescence did not hamper his career, as he won important roles as that of young Al Jolson in The Jolson Story, with his singing...
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Evelyn Keyes (category Deaths from uterine cancer in the United States)
in Columbia's blockbuster hit The Jolson Story (1946). She followed this up with an enjoyable minor screwball comedy, The Mating of Millie, with Glenn...
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The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green (who had directed The Jolson Story, "one of the biggest hits of the...
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Tamara Shayne (category Soviet emigrants to the United States)
1934-61, and is possibly best remembered as Moma Yoelson in The Jolson Story (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949). Shayne remained married to Akim Tamiroff...
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biographical movie The Jolson Story in 1946, where it was lip-synced by actor Larry Parks. Popular recordings in 1926 were by Jolson, Roger Wolfe Kahn...
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Ludwig Donath (category Austrian expatriate male actors in the United States)
(1966). Donath played the father of entertainer Al Jolson (Larry Parks) in the two biopics The Jolson Story (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949), although...
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supporting role in The Jolson Story (1946), playing Al Jolson's fictional mentor. He shared the screen with the real Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. Demarest...
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Swanee (song) (category Al Jolson songs)
in the movies The Jolson Story (1946), Rhapsody in Blue (1945), and Jolson Sings Again (1949). For the song's performance in The Jolson Story, Jolson, rather...
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Girl and The Jolson Story. While on the latter film, Chaplin and Al Jolson penned the million-selling hit tune The Anniversary Song. In the late 1940s...
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1946 in film (redirect from 1946 in the cinema)
and Lionel Barrymore Ivan the Terrible The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks The Kid from Brooklyn The Killers, directed by Robert...
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contract. She had roles in Winged Victory and The Jolson Story, and many television roles, including The Frank Sinatra Show, Adventures of Kit Carson,...
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19th Academy Awards (category March 1947 events in the United States)
(Presenter: Best Original Song) Robert Montgomery (Presenter: Best Motion Picture Story, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Screenplay) Shirley Temple (Presenter:...
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You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) (category Al Jolson songs)
23613. Jolson also performed the song for the soundtrack of the 1946 film The Jolson Story. In 1937, Roger Edens wrote additional lyrics to the song for...
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My Mammy (category Al Jolson songs)
Parks) singing the song in The Jolson Story (1946). The group The Happenings revived the song in 1967 with a recording that reached #13 on the Billboard Hot...
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2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013. "The Jolson Story". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved...
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including The Stork Club (1945), The Jolson Story (1946), and Jolson Sings Again (1949). He played the role of Sherman Billingsley in The Stork Club...
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Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!) (category Al Jolson songs)
"Toot, Toot, Tootsie" appeared in the films The Jazz Singer (1927), Rose of Washington Square (1939), The Jolson Story (1946), I'll See You in My Dreams...
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The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington by John Edward Hasse (ISBN 0306806142), page 122 The Jolson Story at the Internet Movie Database "Mrs. Jolson in...
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included in the biographical films The Jolson Story (1946) and The Benny Goodman Story (1956), and is also being noodled by Sam (Dooley Wilson) at the piano...
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came Green's hit success The Jolson Story (1946) and the affectionate western Four Faces West (1948), known outside the US by the more expressive title They...
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Archived from the original on September 18, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2012. Montgomery, James (February 1, 2010). "'You Oughta Know': The Story Behind Beyonce's...
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Academy Award for Best Actor (redirect from List of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actor (by actor))
Best Writing (Original Story) – for Charles Chaplin. However, the Academy subsequently decided to remove Chaplin's name from the competitive award categories...
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It's a Wonderful Life (category Films based on American short stories)
including four of the five for which It's a Wonderful Life was nominated. (The award for "Best Sound Recording" was won by The Jolson Story.) The Best Years...
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by Al Jolson. Based on the 1925 play of the same title by Samson Raphaelson, the plot was adapted from his short story "The Day of Atonement". The film...
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Walla Walla, Washington (redirect from The town so nice they named it twice)
said the same of New York, New York. The quote referring to Walla Walla was in The Jolson Story, a musical about the entertainer's life. Some locals and...
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drama film starring Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and Glenda Farrell. The film was directed by Archie Mayo, and is based on the novel of the same name by Bradford...
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