This installment in the Hollywood Singing and Dancing documentary series takes a look at the musicals of the 1920's,...
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2009
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Joan Collins is the host of these outtakes and clips deleted from 20th Century-Fox productions of decades past. Entertaining...
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1997
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A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller,...
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Featured Music
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1990
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In this installment in the All You Need Is Love documentary series, filmmakers examine the musical phenomenon of Tin Pan...
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1976
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1963
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1949
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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This musical presents a romantic and sanitized biography of distinguished American songwriter Stephen Foster. The story...
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E.P. Christie
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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Ted Cotter
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1939
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Strictly for Al Jolson's most fervent fans, The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing...
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Al Jackson
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1936
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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Al Howard
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1935
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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Al Wonder
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1934
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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Bumper
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1933
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Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, the Jewish-dialect comedy team famous for their "Dr. Kronkheit" sketch, provide comic relief in...
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1932
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Big Boy may well be the closest a modern audience will ever come to seeing what a genuine Al Jolson Broadway musical looked...
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Gus
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1930
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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Al Fuller
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1930
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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Songwriter, Performer in Film
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1929
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Joe Lane
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1929
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Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking...
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Songwriter
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1929
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Popular film lore has it that The Jazz Singer was the film that established the talkie as the pre-eminent film medium in...
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Al
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin)
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1927
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