The Jazz Singer

6.1 1927 96 min
Drama Music

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 origi…

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Director
Alan Crosland
Writer
Alfred A. Cohn

Cast

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Al Jolson Jakie Rabinowitz
May McAvoy Mary Dale
Warner Oland Cantor Rabinowitz
Eugenie Besserer Sara Rabinowitz
Otto Lederer Moisha Yudelson
Robert Gordon Young Jakie Rabinowitz
Richard Tucker Harry Lee
Yossele Rosenblatt Cantor Rosenblatt
William Demarest Buster Billings (uncredited)
John Miljan Host (uncredited)
Roscoe Karns Agent (uncredited)
Anders Randolf Dillings (uncredited)
Walter Rodgers Make-Up Man (uncredited)
Will Walling Doctor (uncredited)
Ena Gregory (uncredited)
Nat Carr Levi (uncredited)
Ernest Belcher Choreographer (uncredited)
Neely Edwards Dance Director (uncredited)

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