Word: jolson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, however, the Class of 1919 continued to enjoy Boston's places and people. President and Mrs. Lowell held receptions for students every Sunday, except when he was away campaigning for the League. Al Jolson played "Sinbad" at the Boston Opera House and D. W. Griffith's "Broken Blossoms" had an exceptional run at the Colonial Theater...
...flashbacks; the film illustrates them with the primitivity of a comic book. Joe's heterosexual encounters are treated with suppressed smirks. During one love session he bounces up and down on a TV remote control, so that Schlesinger can represent his athletics with quick TV clicks of Al Jolson in blackface, a bishop preaching and a Stegosaurus lunging through a forest...
...warm puppy," says Linke, who fully expects him to soon outearn his other top client, Andy Griffith. "I figure another year of Jim doing Gomer, then on to Broadway. Then back to Hollywood for the movies. I've got another Al Jolson on my hands. You see how in his act I got him dropping down on one knee like Jolie? He hasn't got that voice throb yet, but it's coming, it's coming...
...Donath was active in the anti-Nazi underground before fleeing to Hollywood in 1940. His thick accent made him a natural cinema Nazi, including der Führer himself in 1943's The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, but his talent soon found other roles-most notably Al Jolson's cantor-father...
...Jolson Story and a kindly, studious Viennese psychiatrist in Broadway's A Far Country...