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The Jazz Singer

1927, Movie, NR, 88 mins

The Jazz Singer: Review

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

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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