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The Jazz Singer

1927, Movie, NR, 88 mins

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The Jazz Singer: Review

JAZZ SINGER, THE
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This was the film that revolutionized the motion picture industry, spelled disaster for hundreds of leading players who couldn't or wouldn't speak their lines, and made stars out of unknowns dying to give voice to films. With THE JAZZ SINGER the movies finally--and forever--talked! Besides the songs, there's actually only a smattering of dialog in the film, when Al Jolson's Jakie Rabinowitz talks to his mother (Eugenie Besserer)--once privately, as he sits at a piano, and an... read more leave a comment

The Jazz Singer: Cast & Details

Year: 1927
Rated NR
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Cast
 Al Jolson: Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin
May McAvoy: Mary Dale
Warner Oland: Cantor Rabinowitz
Eugenie Besserer: Sara Rabinowitz
Bobby Gordon: Jakie at Thirteen
Otto Lederer: Moishe Yudelson

 

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The Jazz Singer: TV Guide News

  • Was 1929's The Jazz Singer ... | Movie News | 1/19/2006
    Question: Was 1929's The Jazz Singer really the first movie with sound? Answer: "First" is always a dangerous word: It needs a lot of qualifiers. By consensus, The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length "talkie," though only about a quarter of the film had dialogue or musical sequences that were integral to the plot (as opposed to a musical score that accompanies the action). It was not the first feature film with synchronized sound; that's generally acknowledged to have been the John Barrymore picture Don Juan (1926), which had both a synchronized score and sound effects, but no dialogue. And The Jazz Singer certainly wasn't the first film with dialogue throughout — that credit generally goes to the gangster movie Lights of read more
  • I have been searching for the ... | Movie News | 10/6/2005

    Question: I have been searching for the movie The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond, but all the videos for sale on eBay require you to have a player that can read European videos.


    Answer: It's serendipitous that you should have asked this question less than a week after the new 25th-anniversary edition DVD of The Jazz Singer (1980) crossed my desk. It streets in October from Anchor Bay Entertainment. I'm hoping that the fact that you mentioned video doesn't mean you don't have a DVD player; if so, I hate to be the one to break the word, but video is a dying technology, at least as far as the home market for commercial films is concerned.

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