Al Jolson News

November 27, 2009, 6:43 AM / Bass-baritone Valerian Ruminski, the founder of Nickel City Opera, thinks outside the opera box.

Richard Barrios has lectured extensively on film, served as a commentator on numerous DVDs, and co-hosted a series on Turner Classic Movies.

A theatre was under fire after it banned an Al Jolson tribute act from 'blacking up' - claiming it is racist.

COSHOCTON -- Lewis 'Pooch' Blackson has refurbished a section of the garage behind his home at 617 Chestnut St.

Neil Diamond put Sweet Caroline on the charts, and although he has Jewish roots, that's not stopping him from performing Christmas songs and hymns like Amazing Grace on his newly released CD, 'A Cherry Cherry Christmas'. Neil Leslie Diamond , also known as "Jewish Elvis", is an American singer-songwriter. Diamond tried his hand at film, starring in ...

Al Martino, the baritone renowned for a string of hits, including the sentimental ballads "Spanish Eyes," "Volare" and "Speak Softly Love," and for his role as the wedding singer in "The Godfather," died Tuesday in Springfield, Pa., The Associated Press reported.

WHAT are the odds? For 10 years Issi Dye has performed his blackface Al Jolson show all over Australia with nary a squeak of protest.

Go into Your Dance is one of the better Al Jolson musicals. "The World's Greatest Entertainer" never made more than one film a year and none matched the popularity of his part-talkie breakthrough The Jazz Singer back in 1927.

On October 6, 1927 Warner Brothers' The Jazz Singer, featuring the Vitaphone sound process, premiered at Warners' Theatre in Manhattan - one day after the death of Sam Warner, who supervised Vitaphone sound pictures at Warners.

PANTO favourite Allan Stewart has been nominated for a leading theatre award for his role in Jolson and Co.

The afternoon sun illuminates amber glassware in one room on the fourth floor of the Lightner Museum Tuesday, August 25, 2009.

Talking to the Piano Player 2 is an interesting way to take a glimpse at a bygone era.

Eighty-two years ago, motion pictures--which had been going gangbusters since the 1890s--were hardly in their infancy.

After more than a decade of Film Nights at Tanglewood, conceived by John Williams and now widely imitated elsewhere, one might expect ritual and predictability to creep into the annual Boston Pops season highlight.

Beverly Roberts, who played rugged dames in Warner Bros. potboilers of the 1930s, died July 12 in her sleep of natural causes in Laguna Niguel, Calif.

A relative says Beverly Roberts, who co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1936 film "Two Around the World," has died.

Anne Fister sings "Mammy" with her foot on Al Jolson's footprint in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Bergen county music lovers won't have to wait until the summer's through to see Bob Miranda and The Happenings.

By Bobby Wilson About midway in his concert programs, entertainer/singer Al Jolson used to tell his audience "You ain't heard nothin' yet," implying that the best was yet to come.

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