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The Jazz Singer

1980, Movie, PG, 115 mins

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Dec 22, 2009 03:55 PM

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Aug 8, 2009 05:22 AM

The Jazz Singer
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The movie that broke the sound barrier! Vaudeville crooner Al Jolson stars as a Jewish cantor's son who goes against his family's traditions to make it in show business. The first successful sound feature heralded the end of silent films. Co-starring William Demerest (Uncle Charley of TV's "My Three Sons"). Look for a young Myrna Loy ("The Thin Man"). Received an Oscar nod for Best Adapted Screenplay and features a collection of oldies ("My Mammy," "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye"). Recently selected as one of the top 100 American films of all time by the prestigious American Film Institute. Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. watch

Was 1929's The Jazz Singer ...

Jan 19, 2006 03:00 AM ET
by Maitland McDonagh

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

The Jazz Singer: Cast & Details

Year: 1980
Rated PG

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Cast
Neil Diamond: Jess Robin
Laurence Olivier: Cantor Rabinovitch
Lucie Arnaz: Molly Bell
Catlin Adams: Rivka Rabinovitch
Franklyn Ajaye: Bubba
Paul Nicholas: Keith Lennox

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I have been searching for the ...

Oct 6, 2005 04:00 AM ET
by Maitland McDonagh

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.