#Al Jolson

[citizenscreen]

John Garfield and Al Jolson rehearsing for the “Operation Nightmare” CBS Radio special in 1947.

[audiemurphy1945]

Miguel Covarrubias, That Evening Sun Goes Down, 1938

[vintage-every-day]

Poster for the American film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒐𝒍 (1928).

[wordfromoursponsor]

NBC Network Advertisers: New faces on the network of the stars (1947)

[colorhollywood]

Old Hollywood stars born between 1878 and 1891

Lionel Barrymore (1878, April 28)

Victor Sjöström (1879, September 20)

W.C. Fields (1880, January 29)

Cecil B. DeMille (1881, August 12)

John Barrymore (1882, February 15)

Bela Lugosi (1882, October 20)

Lon Chaney (1883, April 1)

Douglas Fairbanks (1883, May 23)

Walter Huston (1884, April 5)

Edward Everett Horton (1886, March 18)

Al Jolson (1886, May 26)

Boris Karloff (1887, November 23)

Charlie Chaplin (1889, April 16)

Ronald Colman (1891, February 9)

[thepopculturearchivist]

Robert E. Sherwood has an epiphany. LIFE, October 27, 1927

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[friendlessghoul]

Since his divorce from Natalie Talmadge, Buster Keaton has been stepping high wide and 'andsome in the night places. This time was Mae Scriven. - Modern Screen 1933

[emilija04acer]

Music that fits Alastor pt 1

I'm trying to edit Al with songs from his time, that also fit him as a character in some way. Here is one of them...

Mr. Radio Man 1924

Al Jolson (with Isham Jones & His Orch.)

Little broken hearted Sammy

Sitting on his Daddy's knee

Listening to the radio

But his heart is breaking so

Seems the angels took his Mammy

Any wonder why he cries

When his Daddy fell asleep

Little Sammy boy would creep

To the radio and cry...

Mr. Radio Man

Tell my Mammy to come back home

Won't you do what you can

`Cos I'm so lonely

I've been listening here every day

Since she went away

But no word from Heaven's been heard

Can't the angels hear me pray

When the sandman is nigh

And to slumberland I must go

I know she hears me sigh

Over my radio

When the reason I'm crying

And sighing, I'm all alone

Mr. Radio Man

Tell my mammy to come back home

Mr. Radio Man

Tell my Mammy, my Mammy to come back home

Won't you do won't you do what you can

Oooh! I'm so lonely

I've been listening in every day

Ever since she went away

But not a word from Heaven have I heard

Can't the angels hear me pray

When the sandman is nigh

And to slumberland I must go

I know she must hear me sigh

Over my radio

Oh, and the reason I'm, I'm sighing

And I'm crying, I'm so alone

Mr. Radio Man, please

Please tell my Mammy to come back home

I love old music and in me trying to find music specifically for a character, I found so much music and downloaded it from Internet Archive that I'll need to delete something soon...

Hopefully, I'll edit the thing (also planing to animate this)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jack Dempsey, left, with Al Jolson, who visited the Dempsey headquarters, August 11, 1920. The world champ was training for his upcoming bout with K.O. Brennan. After looking Al over, Jack decided there was no possibility of danger and took him on for a few rounds. Al survived.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[citizenscreen]

Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950)

[frenchcurious]

Al Jolson, avec sa femme Ruby Keeler et leur Mercedes-Benz Model S Tourer de 1928. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

[vintage-every-day]

Newlyweds Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler aboard the Olympic in September 1928.

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[oldshowbiz]

The Strange Truth about Al Jolson.

[thursdaymurderbub]

Excerpt from a 1972 interview with Joan Blondell done on the set of Banyon (1972-1973). Taken from Conversations with Classic Film Stars: interviews from Hollywood's golden era (2016) by James Bawden and Ron Miller. I wonder whether the last 2 sentences are in response to the spike in female nudity in film from the late 60s onwards after the code was no longer enforced. It's good to emphasize that many of those actresses were not fully informed about what would happen or what would be shown during scenes with nudity or partial nudity and that many of them were coerced into filming those scenes/roles in the first place.