Dir: Alfred E Green | Cast: Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin | US Biopic
This technicolour musical biography purports to tell the life story of American singer Al Jolson with Larry Parks in the main role
‘The Onion’ once carried a report that Al Jolson was lynched in error by the Ku Klux Klan. I don’t recall the last time they showed this film on television but it probably suffers the same odium as ‘Song of the South’ which makes it seem shockingly unWoke rather than the mild family entertainment as which it was originally received, with Evelyn Keyes benefitting handsomely from a makeover.
Anybody pondering upon the capacity of one era to impose its standards upon an earlier one should consider that Jolson was originally Jewish and both the star and the screenwriter were both subsequently blacklisted. @RichardChatten
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