Mammy

There's a bit of controversy about how this movie came to be. James Gleason, the actor-writer, is credited in some quarters with the original play but so is Irving Berlin. Be that as it may, the story concerns a minstrel show and all of the desperate attempts at keeping the presentation afloat. Jolson and Lewis are "end men" in the show and Sherman, playing Will West (who was the best emcee [interlocutor] of his day), is the leader of the pack. Moran's father, Bosworth, owns the show, and she is in love with Sherman, who has a roving eye. Jolson, in order to help Moran get some sort of rise out of Sherman, makes a move on her but Sherman barely notices. Jolson is b...