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...gave a different verdict, reflected in Variety's list of the year's biggest grossers. Some were holdovers from 1948, but even among those of 1949's crop (including some good ones), not one was even mentioned by the New York critics or the National Board: Jolson Sings Again, Pinky, I Was a Male War Bride, The Snake Pit, Joan of Arc, The Stratton Story, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College, Little Women, Words and Music, Neptune's Daughter...
...Jolson Sings Again. The Jolson Story brought up to date, with Larry Parks and the master's voice (TIME, Sept...
...television fame of a comic who specializes in gag-stealing and belligerent self-interest, and stops at nothing to keep an audience laughing. The movie includes an endless parade of vaudeville turns with Berle running through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please...
...studios, who pay the stars their regular salaries, plus expenses, to plug their latest pictures. In New York, to tout Pinky and Everybody Does It, Jeanne Grain, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters and Paul Douglas were whisked onto the stages of 23 neighborhood theaters in three evenings. Al Jolson, who only two years ago turned down $40,000 for a week's engagement in Manhattan, has been appearing without pay for months as a living trailer for Jolson Sings Again. (His incentive: 40% of the film's profits...
...Jolson Sings Again. Zestful sequel to the film biography of mammy's favorite son; with Larry Parks and Jolson's voice (TIME, Sept...