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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).
The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Jerry Leider. The film stars Neil Diamond (in his acting debut), Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz, and tells the story of a young singer who is torn between tradition and pursuing his dreams as a pop singer. Based on the 1925 play of the same ...
Apr 5, 2024 · The Jazz Singer. Al Jolson and Eugenie Besserer in The Jazz Singer (1927), directed by Alan Crosland. On Yom Kippur, cantor Rabinowitz (played by Warner Oland) looks forward to when his 13-year-old son, Jakie (Robert Gordon), will succeed him at the synagogue. However, after discovering that Jakie is singing in a saloon, the cantor beats him ...
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Jun 28, 2020 · The Jazz Singer, produced by the legendary Darryl F. Zanuck, was a star vehicle for Al Jolson, a popular singer and stage performer who was America's highest-paid entertainer in the '20s. The film told the story of a young Jewish man who defies his devout father's wishes and runs away from home to become an entertainer.
May 29, 2018 · The Jazz Singer, which was also remade in 1953 and 1980, capably integrates song numbers and dialog into parts of the scenario. After one musical sequence, Jakie utters a prophetic line: "You ain't heard nothin' yet." Given the rousing public response to The Jazz Singer and the new sound film industry that it spawned, this was no small boast.
Instead, Warners turned to Jolson, and film history was made. The Jazz Singer proved a sensation at the box office, earning $3.5 million in profits on an investment of $500,000. As its special Oscar indicated, the film sparked the sound revolution and helped turn Warner Bros. into a major studio.
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Synopsis. Yussel Rabinovitch (Neil Diamond) is a young, fifth-generation Jewish cantor performing at the synagogue of his imperious father Cantor Rabinovitch (Laurence Olivier). Yussel is married to his childhood friend, Rivka (Caitlin Adams), and has settled down to a life of religious devotion to the teaching of his faith.
