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Basic facts

Original title The Jolson Story
Film type Feature
Category Fiction
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Production country
Production company
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Dialogue
Swedish release 1947-03-10

Cast

Larry Parks
Al Jolson

Evelyn Keyes
Julie Benson

William Demarest
Steve Martin

Bill Goodwin
Tom Baron

Ludwig Donath
kantor Yoelson

Scotty Beckett
Asa Yoelson, Al Jolson som pojke

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Titles

Original title
Swedish release title
Working title

Crew

Director
Screenplay
Producer
Director of Photography
Music
Choreography
Production Designer
Film Editor
Production Mixer
Assistant Director
Technical Advisor
Dialogue Coach
Second Unit Director
Adaptation
Research
Associate Producer
Camera Operator
Vocal Arrangement
Conductor
Music Recording Supervisor
Orchestration
Set Decorator
Costume Designer
Make-up Supervisor
Hair Stylist
Re-recording Mixer
Other Crew

Cast

Larry Parks Al Jolson
Evelyn Keyes Julie Benson
William Demarest Steve Martin
Bill Goodwin Tom Baron
Ludwig Donath kantor Yoelson
Scotty Beckett Asa Yoelson, Al Jolson som pojke
Tamara Shayne Mrs. Yoelson
Jo-Carroll Dennison Ann Murray
John Alexander Lew Dockstader
Ernest Cossart fader McGee
The Mitchell Boy's Choir kyrkokören
- Ej krediterade:
William Forrest Dick Glenn
Ann Todd Ann Murray som barn
Edwin Maxwell Oscar Hammerstein
Emmett Vogan Jonsey
Coulter Irwin John, ung präst
Jimmy Lloyd Roy Anderson
Adele Roberts dansare
Eric Wilton Henry, butler
Dan Stowell biljettförsäljare
Charles Marsh man i publiken
Harry Shannon Reilly, polis
John Tyrrell köande man
Joe Palma arbetare på järnvägsområdet
Ted Stanhope elektriker
P.J. Kelly dörrvakt
Buddy Gorman Jimmy, inspicient
Charles Jordan Dockstaders inspicient
Eddie Fetherston biträdande inspicient
Eddie Kane Florenz Ziegfeld
Pierre Watkin arkitekt
Eugene Borden hovmästare
Eddie Rio nattklubbskonferencier
Will Wright surpuppa
Arthur Loft inspicient på Winter Garden
Edward Keane regissör på Winter Garden
Bill Brandt orkesterledare på nattklubb
Pat Lane kameraman
Ralph Linn ljudtekniker
Mike Lally laboratorieföreståndare
George Magrill elektriker
Helen O'Hara dansare
Jessie Arnold garderobiär
Donna Dax pressinformatör
Louis Traeger pojke
Fred F. Sears Oscar, klippare
Fred Howard man i publiken
Lilian Bond en kvinna
Symona Boniface kvinna i publiken
Clay Campbell sminkör för "The Jazz Singer"
James Conaty man i publiken
Franklyn Farnum man i publiken
Bess Flowers kvinna i publiken
Sam Harris man på nattklubben
Robert Kellard (as Bob Stevens) Henry, orkesterledare
Ethan Laidlaw man i publiken
Doris Lloyd Alice, jungfru
Harold Miller man på nattklubben
Robert Mitchell körledaren
Alex Romero dansare
Brick Sullivan man i publiken

Companies

Production Company Columbia Pictures Corporation
Copyright Columbia Pictures Corporation 1946-09-12 (LP732)
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm) Columbia Film AB 1947

Swedish censorship / rating

Censorship number 71346
Date 1947-01-29
Classification Suitable for all audiences
Original length 3535 meters
Notes Visningskopiorna nedklippta till 3240 meter - 118 minuter.


Technical specifications

Aspect ratio 1.37:1
Sound type Sound
Sound system Western Electric Recording
Colour type Colour
Colour system Technicolor
Carrier type 35 mm
Frames per second 24
Length in metres 3550 meter
Length in minutes 130 min


Production location

1945-10-24 1946-03-15

Release dates

First showing 1946-10-10 New York City, New York USA 130 min
Other showing 1947-01 USA 130 min (US release)
Release in Sweden 1947-03-10 Royal Stockholm Sweden 118 min
Other showing 1954-05-05 USA 126 min (amerikansk nypremiär med stereoljud)
1969-08-14 London United Kingdom 130 min (premiär för 70 mm-version - uppblåsning från 35 mm)

Soundtrack listing

Original title Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
Composer Irving Berlin (1930)
Lyrics Irving Berlin (1930)
Sung by Al Jolson (under filmens förtexter)


Original title On the Banks of the Wabash (Far Away)
Composer Paul Dresser (1897)
Lyrics Paul Dresser (engelsk text 1897)
Karl-Ewert (svensk text 1914)
Sung by Rudy Wissler (dubbar Scotty Beckett)


Original title Ave Maria
Composer Franz Schubert (1825)
Lyrics Walter Scott (1810 - ur "Lady of the Lake")
Sung by Rudy Wissler (dubbar Scotty Beckett)
The Mitchell Boy's Choir


Original title When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Composer James Thornton (1898)
Lyrics James Thornton (1898)
Sung by Rudy Wissler (dubbar Scotty Beckett)
Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks - repris)


Original title After the Ball
Composer Charles K. Harris (1892)
Lyrics Charles K. Harris (1892)
Ernst Wallmark (svensk text)
Sung by Rudy Wissler (dubbar Scotty Beckett)


Original title By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Composer Gus Edwards (1909)
Lyrics Edward Madden (1909)
Sung by Rudy Wissler (dubbar Scottty Beckett)


Original title Blue Bell
Composer Theodore Morse (1904)
Lyrics Edward Madden (1904)
Theodora Morse (1904)
Sung by Rudy Wissler (dubbar Scotty Beckett)


Original title Ev'ry Little Movement (Has a Meaning of Its Own)
Composer Karl Hoschna (1910)
Lyrics Otto A. Harbach (1910)


Original title Ma Blushin' Rosie
Composer John Stromberg (1900)
Lyrics Edgar Smith (1900)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)
Composer Harry von Tilzer (1911)
Lyrics Will Dillon (1911)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title My Mammy
Composer Walter Donaldson (1918)
Lyrics Sam M. Lewis (1918)
Joe Young (1918)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title I'm Sitting on Top of the World
Composer Ray Henderson (1925)
Lyrics Sam M. Lewis (1925)
Joe Young (1925)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
Composer Jimmy Monaco (1913)
Lyrics Joseph McCarthy (1913)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title Swanee
Composer George Gershwin (1919)
Lyrics Irving Caesar (1919)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
Dancer kör


Original title Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo'Bye!)
By Gus Kahn (1922)
Ernie Erdman (1922)
Dan Russo (1922)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title The Spaniard That Blighted My Life
Composer Billy Merson (1911)
Lyrics Billy Merson (1911)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
kör


Original title April Showers
Composer Louis Silvers (1921)
Lyrics B.G. DeSylva (1921)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
Al Jolson (repris - dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title California Here I Come
Composer B.G. DeSylva (1924)
Al Jolson (1924)
Joseph Meyer (1924)
Lyrics B.G. DeSylva (1924)
Al Jolson (1924)
Joseph Meyer (1924)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
Virginia Rees (dubbar Evelyn Keyes som imiterar Al Jolson)


Original title Liza
Composer George Gershwin (1929)
Lyrics Ira Gershwin (1929)
Gus Kahn (1929)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
Dancer Evelyn Keyes
kör (manskör)


Original title There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Composer Al Jolson (1928)
Billy Rose (1928)
Dave Dreyer (1928)
Lyrics Al Jolson (1928)
Billy Rose (1928)
Dave Dreyer (1928)
Sung by Al Jolson (excerpt ur filmen "The Singing Fool" 1928)


Original title She's a Latin from Manhattan
Composer Harry Warren (1935)
Lyrics Al Dubin (1935)
Sung by Virginia Rees (dubbar Evelyn Keyes)
kör (manskör)
Dancer Evelyn Keyes
kör (manskör)


Original title Avalon
Composer Vincent Rose (1920)
Lyrics Al Jolson (1920)
Sung by Al Jolson (ej i bild)


Original title About a Quarter to Nine
Composer Harry Warren (1935)
Lyrics Al Dubin (1935)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
Dancer Larry Parks
Evelyn Keyes


Original title Anniversary Song
Composer Ion Ivanovici ("Valurile Dunarii" 1880)
Lyrics Al Jolson (1946)
Musical Arrangement Saul Chaplin (1946)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)
Dancer Ludwig Donath
Tamara Shayne


Original title Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Composer Lewis F. Muir (1912)
Lyrics L. Wolfe Gilbert (1912)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
Composer Jean Schwartz (1918)
Lyrics Joe Young (1918)
Sam Lewis (1918)
Sung by Al Jolson (dubbar Larry Parks)


Original title Ungarische Tänze. Nr 5, fiss-moll
Composer Johannes Brahms (1869)


Original title Wiener Blut (vals), op. 354
Composer Johann Strauss d.y. (1873)


Original title Old Folks at Home
Composer Stephen C. Foster (1851)
Lyrics Stephen C. Foster (1851)


Original title Lullaby of Broadway
Composer Harry Warren (1935)
Lyrics Al Dubin (1935)


Original title Forty-second Street
Composer Harry Warren (1932)
Lyrics Al Dubin (1932)


Original title We're in the Money
Composer Harry Warren (1933)
Lyrics Al Dubin (1933)


Original title Ein Sommernachtstraum. Hochzeitmarsch
Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1842)


Holdings Posters

Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 1


Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 2


Size Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity 1


Holdings Scripts

Script type Dialoglista
Language English


Holdings Stills

Black and white print set
Colour prints 2
Behind the scenes prints No
Slides No
Digital images No
Negatives No
Contact sheets No
Album No


Holdings Promotion materials

Type Program/Reklamtryck


Type Program folio



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