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...Jolson Story...
...Jazz Singer (Warner), a remake, starring Nightclub Comic Danny Thomas, of the first (1927) sound picture, which starred Al Jolson...
Robert came through in show business after the war. He changed his name from Widerman to Clary, as friends in concentration camp had suggested, and started work in a rundown boite in Paris' Place Pigalle, doing a blackface turn a la Jolson. In 1949, Clary was brought to the U.S., but "I wasn't very good." It took him two years in the cellar circuit to get good...
...accounting filed in Manhattan's Surrogate Court listed the net estate left by the late Mammy Singer Al Jolson at $2,366,844. Among the bequests: trust funds of $1,000,000 for Erie, his fourth wife; $500,000 each to their adopted children Asa and Alicia; and $10,000 for Ethel Delmar, his second wife...
This week Leon Jolson had something more to celebrate: he became a U.S. citizen. In gratitude, he gave $10,000 to Columbia University's Teachers College for fellowships for other refugees...