Mammy
An ideal showcase for master showman Al Jolson. Giving full rein to his unique talents in a melodramatic story of a lovelorn minstrel man innocently involved in murderous intrigue.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 6, 2010
- Originally Released: 1930
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Jolson, Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth, Louise Dresser & Lois Moran | |
Directed by | Michael Curtiz | |
Screenwriting by | Gordon Rigby & Joseph Jackson | |
Music Performer: | Giuseppe Verdi | |
Composition by | Irving Berlin | |
Director of Photography: | Barney McGill |
Description by OLDIES.com:
Center stage, singing his heart out - that's how fans love Al Jolson. And that's what they get in Mammy. It's an ideal showcase for the master showman, giving full rein to Jolson's unique talents in a melodramatic story of a lovelorn minstrel man innocently involved in murderous intrigue. But, as always with Jolson, the star is the story. Here he gets top support from Irving Berlin's jazzy-melodious score, including the jaunty Let Me Sing and I'm Happy. The film's most memorable sequences feature Jolson in full-scale recreations of a genuine minstrel show, complete with interlocutor-end man gags, dancers, tambourine chorus, tunes aplenty and a daffy mock-opera version of "Yes, We Have No Bananas."
Product Description:
MAMMY features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several plot convolutions that Jolson is guilty of the deed. He heads for the hills, but returns to the show, his reputation restored but his love for the actress unrequited. Maudlin in the extreme, MAMMY is salvaged by several enjoyable songs by Irving Berlin and by its Technicolor photography (though most TV prints are black and white). The film's fascination with modern viewers rests with the presence of Al Jolson--and with the casual use of profanity during his confrontation scene with Lowell Sherman.
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- Sales Rank: 3,622
- UPC: 883316173848
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