Word: jolsonized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jolson Sings Again (Sidney Buchman; Columbia) is the predictable sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...
...Jolson Sings Again begins prosaically enough where the first movie left off, but it soon becomes a fascinating look at Hollywood backstage. Producer Sidney Buchman gives a close explanation of how he pulled off his neatest trick-the synchronizing of Jolson's singing voice with Actor Larry Parks's gestures and lips. He has also decked out the whole exhibition with a brilliant display of soundstage techniques and gadgets. The result is a dizzy scramble of fact and fiction. In the sequences showing the filming of The Jolson Story, Larry Parks plays both himself and the "real life...
Apart from such slippery stunts of cinemagic, Jolson Sings Again is a thumping good musical, handsomely mounted in Technicolor and zestfully played by a talented cast. The trouble is, it may launch a new and frighteningly inconclusive kind of serial. Hollywood gagsters have suggested that, 20 years hence, Columbia might do a musical entitled The Larry Parks Story, showing a young juvenile portraying Parks portraying Jolson...
...Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35? records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business...
...Hours of Stars (Sat. 4 p.m., NBC). Variety show starring Edgar Bergen, Al Jolson, Jo Stafford, Lauritz Melchior and others...