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  • Title: Jazz Singer, The / A Plantation Act / An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee / Hollywood Handicap / A Day at Santa Anita / The Voice that Thrilled the World / Okay for Sound / I Love to Singa / Finding His Voice / The Dawn of Sound: How the Movies Learned to Talk / Gold Diggers of Broadway (excerpts) / When the Talkies were Young / Behind the Lines / The Wizard of the Mandolin / The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland / Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes / Hazel Green and Company / The Night Court / The Police Quartette / When East Meets West / Jazzmania Quintette / The Band Beautiful / Chips of the Old Block / Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarches / Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors / The Beau Brummels / Roof Garden Revue / My Bag o' Tricks / Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts / The Eccentric Entertainer / At the Seashore / Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats / The Child Wonder / Lambchops / The Happy Hottentots
  • Summary: The son of a Jewish cantor must defy his father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
  • Director: Alan Crosland
  • Cast: Eugenie Besserer, Robert Gordon, Al Jolson, Otto Lederer, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Richard Tucker
  • Studio: Warner Bros
  • Year: 1927
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  • Format: DVD
  • Language: English
  • Country: USA
  • Comments: The DVDs include an audio commentary by Ron Hutchison, the short films "A Plantation Act," "An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee," "Hollywood Handicap," "A Day at Santa Anita," "The Voice that Thrilled the World," "Okay for Sound," the animated cartoon "I Love to Singa," the cartoon "Finding His Voice," the feature-length documentary "The Dawn of Sound: How the Movies Learned to Talk," excerpts from "Gold Diggers of Broadway" and the promotional documentary "When the Talkies were Young." The DVDs also include a collection of early Vitaphone sound films: "Behind the Lines," "The Wizard of the Mandolin," "The Pennant Winning Battery of Songland," "Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with the Music Boxes," "Hazel Green and Company," "The Night Court," "The Police Quartette," "When East Meets West," "Stories in Song," "Jazzmania Quintette," "The Band Beautiful," "Chips of the Old Block," "Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarches," "Gus Arnheim and his Ambassadors," "The Beau Brummels," "Roof Garden Revue," "My Bag o' Tricks," "Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts," "The Eccentric Entertainer," "At the Seashore," "Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats," "The Child Wonder," "Lambchops" and "The Happy Hottentots." Additionally there is a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast from 1947 and seven theatrical trailers. American Film Institute 100 American Films New York Times 1000 Films
  • Collection: Silent