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40: 348:.) Julie does not love him immediately, but Al refuses to take no for an answer, and she eventually agrees to consider it. After Al misses a show in order to attend the opening of Julie's first show, she realises his feelings for her are genuine and they marry. Al electrifies the show world with his first feature film, 354:, and eagerly signs for more movies. His wife wants to quit show business and settle down, but Al persuades her to continue with her career. Julie becomes a movie star, but eventually can't stand any more of Al's nonstop, show-biz lifestyle. Al realizes that the only way to keep Julie is to quit show business. 328:
Stage-struck Asa Yoelson wants to sing in burlesque performer Steve Martin's act. Cantor Yoelson, his father, refuses to consider it. After Asa runs away but is found in Baltimore, the Yoelsons grudgingly consent. Martin gives him billing, under a new name: Al Jolson. Jolson receives a job offer from
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Much of the plot was fictionalized. There is no evidence that Jolson ever appeared as a child singer. His mother is shown as still alive at the end of the picture. In fact, she died in 1895, when he was 9 years old, and he was brought up by his sister. His brother Harry is eliminated as is much of
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in 1951. His sudden rise to prominence was considered an "overnight success," though he had been featured in Columbia's low-budget features for five years. Parks continued playing character leads, but was most associated with his interpretation of Jolson. Columbia cast him in a successful sequel,
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Al succeeds with the minstrel troupe and is invited to join a Broadway show (thanks to Martin, behind the scenes). Al becomes the leading player and takes the show on tour. Al hires his old mentor Martin, now unemployed, to be his manager. In real life, Jolson never had a manager with this name.
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Al refuses all job offers and absolutely will not sing, even for family and friends. Papa Yoelson persuades his son to join him in a song – the music he and Mama Yoelson danced to at their wedding – and Al gets caught up in it. They adjourn to a nightclub, where the
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audience demands a song. Al agrees to a single number but the crowd yells for more. Julie, seeing Al happier than he's been in years, leaves while he's performing. She walks out of the nightclub and out of his life, leaving Al to his first love: singing.
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Larry Parks' vocals were recorded by Al Jolson; Scotty Beckett's songs were recorded by Rudy Wissler. Al Jolson, determined to appear on screen somehow, persuaded the producer to film him instead of Larry Parks for the blackface
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Soon afterwards, Al meets up-and-coming dancer Julie Benson. It is love at first sight for Al, who proposes to her that night. (Al Jolson was actually married four times. The character Julie Benson is modeled on his third wife,
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Jolson's career prevents him spending much time at home. He had always bargained on marrying his childhood friend, Ann Murray, but she eventually accepts a proposal from another childhood friend.
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as the young Jolson. Some of the film's episodes are based on fact but the story is extremely simplified, with people disguised or combined into single characters.
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on February 16, 1948. Jolson starred as himself in the one-hour adaptation. Jolson also starred in a Lux adaptation of his first feature
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production. Cohn was impressed by director Joseph H. Lewis's handling of the musical numbers in the 1944
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Jolson had three managers over the course of his career- Steve Martin is a composite of all three.
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Larry Parks became a full-fledged star in major productions, until his career was derailed by
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his early career. Jolson actually had three managers, who were combined into the
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after he admitted to having been a member of the Communist Party before the
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Rudy Wissler (soundtrack only) as singing voice for Scotty Beckett
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When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)
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The film was a tremendous financial success, and won
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Index

The Al Jolson Story

Alfred E. Green
Stephen Longstreet
Sidney Buchman
Harry Chandlee
Sidney Skolsky
Larry Parks
Evelyn Keyes
William Demarest
Bill Goodwin
Joseph Walker
William A. Lyon
Morris Stoloff
Technicolor
Columbia Pictures
biographical
musical film
Al Jolson
Larry Parks
Evelyn Keyes
Ruby Keeler
William Demarest
Ludwig Donath
Tamara Shayne
Scotty Beckett
Columbia Pictures
Sidney Buchman
Harry Chandlee
Stephen Longstreet

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