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The Jolson Story: Directed by Alfred E. Green. With Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin. This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz.
Mar 22, 2017 · Washington Larry Parks, star of the Al Jolson films, said to-day that he expected ten words he uttered to-day to end his Hollywood career. The words were “I was a Communist party member from ...
Larry Parks. Actor. Born December 13, 1914 in Olathe, Kansas, USA. When amiable Columbia Pictures actor Larry Parks was entrusted the role of entertainer Al Jolson in the biopic The Jolson Story (1946), his career finally hit the big time. Within a few years, however, his bright new world crumbled courtesy of the House Un-American Activities ...
August 25, 1968. Twenty years after he starred in "The Jolson Story," Larry Parks still meets people like the cab driver who took him to the theater the other day. Parks and his wife, Betty Garrett, got into the cab and the driver said, "Say, aren't you Larry Parks? I saw you in the Jolson picture." "He had a hell of a Jolson imitation," Parks ...
