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Whenever blackface makes the news, a picture of Al Jolson is often brought out to illustrate the make-up and comment on it's perception and implied racism. But Jolson was not the first nor the only person to black up, just the most famous. Here is a look at other people of the stage and screen who also wore blackface -- for theater, not as racists.
Although he frequently performed without burnt cork, it is the image of Jolson's black face and white-gloved outstretched palms that lives on in popular memory. Jolson deserves better.
Al Jolson, , American entertainer, famed as black face minstrel, singing with white top hat and minstrel tambourine band in a scene from the 1935 film Go Into Your Dance. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
American singer and actor Al Jolson (1896 - 1950) in blackface, circa 1930. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
10 paź 2024 · But in doing so, Bernstein argues, Jolson and other immigrant Jews in musical theater entertainment at the time “helped make America more vulgar, morally looser, but also more open-minded ...
13 lut 2019 · Al Jolson, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant who came to New York as a child, became one of the most influential blackface stars of the 20th century, including his 1927 hit film The Jazz Singer.
19 maj 2010 · The fantastic Al Jolson performing his signature tune 'Mammy' in the finale of the 1927 film 'The Jazz Singer' and yes, it's in blackface! Great performance....
