The crowd at the Al Jolson Festival in the Oceanside Knights of Columbus Hall ballroom is primed for their sing-a-long. Instead, Babino faithfully re-creates Jolson's soaring baritone to instrumental ...

Al Jolson lived “The American Dream.” Born in Lithuania, Jolson rose through the ranks of vaudeville as a comedian and a blackface “Mammy” singer. By 1920, he had become the biggest star on Broadway, ...

Don Shirley’s commentary on Al Jolson’s life and career simply flies in the face of facts (“Let Sleeping Eras and Their Stars Lie,” May 15). He left out significant components of Jolson’s successful ...

If Al Jolson wasn't the meanest, nastiest, most self-centered performer in show business, he campaigned hard for the title. If Stephen Mo Hanan's eerie musical impersonation of the legendary ...

Al Jolson was in a class all by himself. From about 1912 until 1934, he was the most highly paid entertainer in the United States. What Enrico Caruso was to opera, Jolson was to popular song. Jolson’s ...

Movie heralded the end of the silent film era and the advent of talkies Story of a young Jewish boy who defies father to sing popular music inspired by star%27s own story New three-disc set comes with ...

Erle Jolson Krasna, an occasional actress who was the influential widow of both singer Al Jolson and Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer Norman Krasna, has died. She was 81. Krasna died Sunday of ...

Contained in the article regarding the fundraiser for the police officers involved in the Freddie Gray case is a description of Al Jolson by the Fraternal Order of Police as an “iconic racist figure.” ...

Al Jolson lived "The American Dream." Born in Lithuania, Jolson rose through the ranks of vaudeville as a comedian and a blackface "Mammy" singer. By 1920, he had become the biggest star on Broadway, ...

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