A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Al Jolson. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Al Jolson [himself].

The Vitaphone Corporation production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Musical conductor, Al Goodman. / © 2 April 1927 by The Vitaphone Corporation [MP3900]. Premiered 5 October 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Vitaphone production number 359. The film premiered with The Better ’ole (1926). / Full-sound film.

Performance.

Synopsis: Jolson performs three songs, “The Red, Red Robin,” “April Showers” and “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody.”

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Blackface - Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 15 December 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Geduld-Birth pp. 147-148; LoC-MoPic-2 p. 11 : ClasIm-220 p. C5 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.