Al Jolson Movies

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Al Jolson

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Alda

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in association with United Artists Television. Each...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joseph Cotten

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Ruggles

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Gallop

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Al Jolson

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Ameche

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Al Jolson

Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Norma Talmadge

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Al Jolson

After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Al Jolson

Al Jolson's first sound film. Dressed in overalls and wearing black-face makeup, he sings three of his hit songs: "When the Red, Red, Robin Comes...

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

Genre: Music

Cast: Al Jolson

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice White

A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita...

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Cast: Ralph Staub

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Q. Lewis

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Hunt

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Al Jolson

At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Larry Parks

In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Larry Parks

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walt Disney

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathleen Turner

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

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Cast: Phil Baker

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6...

Genre: History

Cast: John Barrymore

The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, there's also included a history of Salsa, and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ray Barretto

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

Genre: History

Cast: Art Gilmore

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybil Jason

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Ameche

A short promotional film about Ruby Keeler and her upcoming film "Flirtation Walk." It provides a brief look at her career on Broadway, early films,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Warner Baxter

A trio of singers entertaining hospitalized soldiers during WWII encourage a wounded soldier in his love for a nurse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frances Langford