The Jazz Singer
Hear him sing Mammy, Toot Toot Tootsie, My Gal Sal, Mother I Still Have You.
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Timing:
1:29 (89 min)
6.131/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Music
Budget
$422 000
Revenue
$2 600 000
Director
Actors
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Robert Gordon, Richard Tucker, Yossele Rosenblatt, William Demarest, John Miljan
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Composer
Louis Silvers
Artist
Audition
Editing
Harold McCord
All team (9)
All team (9)
Short description
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 first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
What's left behind the scenes
- This is the first sound feature film.
- October 6, 1927 – the premiere date of 'The Jazz Singer' – is considered the birthday of sound cinema.
- The film is widely regarded as the first full-length motion picture with a synchronized musical score, synchronized singing, and dubbed dialogue, although it was originally intended to have no dialogue at all, only singing. All the lines were improvised by the lead actor Al Jolson (1886-1950), and Harry M. Warner (1881-1958), one of the founders of Warner Bros., decided to keep these scenes in the film.
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