The 1930 movie musical “Mammy” is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson’s career. “Mammy” stars “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” ...

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, ...

The late Al Jolson – who often sang “Mammy” while wearing blackface – was dragged yesterday into the debate over a move to name a street after a rabble-rousing black activist. City Councilman Charles ...

Saw the ad for the Chicago International Film Festival in the Reader [October 11], and while I agree the Lewis Milestone-Al Jolson movie is a classic, the picture you published is not from Hallelujah, ...

With a cry for his "Mammy" and a Jolson-like rasp agitating his Adam's apple to the tune of "You Made Me Love You," Edward M. Lamont '48 tossed his Hasty Pudding and Eliot House inhibitions to the ...

Dirty Hands! Dirty Face! (from The Film Soundtrack 'the Jazz Singer', 1927) Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (from The Film Soundtrack 'the Jazz Singer', 1927) Blue Skies (from The Film Soundtrack 'the Jazz ...

After more than 20 years as a professional Al Jolson imitator, Eddy Ambrose can`t sing in church anymore. ”If I sing, I`ve got to go Jolson style. I can`t sing any other way,” said Ambrose, 62, a ...

The 1930 movie musical “Mammy" is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson's career. “Mammy" stars “The World's Greatest Entertainer" ...

The generation that adored Al Jolson is pretty much gone now, leaving him as more of a footnote in history — the performer who, in “The Jazz Singer,” brought in the talkies — than what he actually was ...