In this world 🌎 of politics he could not sing 🎤 in black face 🙎🏿‍♂️and perform as a great singer in 2024.

Hopefully Rebecca didn't try going into pictures', yikes.

1963

Carole Lombard was absolutely stunning

All these commenters not realizing these are the most invasive and destructive birds on the planet. Yes, they are beautiful, but they push out all the other native species and pillage farms and crops.

All these comments about why he wore black face, it's like y'all didn't even watch the movie, he went on in black face the first time, for a drunk passed out friend, that wore black face, he was such a hit that very night, that top producers offered the drunk guy a job on their show, then he saw the black stuff behind al's ear, and figured it out, because the other guy was still drunk. 😂

Only showing EP once is disrespectful since she was the biggest star of those musicals and saved MGM from bankruptcy!!

BARF,,,BARF,,,BARF,,,BARF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wow! Hollywood and the Stars. Being the movie junkie that I am, I used to watch that show every week when it was on the air. I think my favorite was 'Monster we have known and Loved'. This was my first time seeing 'The Immortal Jolson', though. It tells a good story about a man who needed to sing like you and I need to breathe.

Parsons head big as a medicine ball😺

My personal favorite musical star is Betty Grable. Especially the technicolor ones of the 1940s and '50s.

Musicals were made to put people in better spirits. The Great Depression and WW2 especially. Times were rough. World War. They helped take peoples minds off of the dark times the world was going through.

There has never been as great a performer as Al Jolson. Not even close. And, I do not base that on subjecture. I saw Jolson, and I've seen everyone since. If there ever will be his equal, I won't know, I'll be gone. But I go knowing I've seen many great singers and performers, and I've seen the best. Jollie!

I love these old nature docrumentarys!,,sure,the picture isn't as good as the modern one's,but so much easier to understand!👌 could these be digitally upgraded somehow?

Blackface has dated (as It should be) I will not argue with that - As for Al Jolson he is an important figure in song - and he had a glorious voice

My dad used to sing like Al Jolson, I know all of his songs, I thought he was a wonderful entertainer. His music was always playing in my house.❤

😆 cars parked inside the ground, just outside the boundry. 😅 26:15 onwards ❤

i have 3 jack russels on chases a hare around our local pit top,then she returns 2 hours later for breakfast,,what a jack

That intro clip is from Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire, with a very young Bob Hope behind hin in the dancing chorus. Fred, using his taps as a machine gun sound, was revolutionary with its sound and the general public's fascination with the mob during the Prohibition Era of the Great Depression.

Jolson was a singing, dancing, whistling supernova. He gave everything. His energy was off the charts. Truly amazing in this era of No-Talent.

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i enjoyed this series so much as a kid. the lifestyle of heavy smoking (including Cotton) took so many stars and all the rest.

loved this series as a kid in the early 60s

Apparently, Fred Astaire didn’t like top hats etc.

Thank you 👏 I feel in love with these movies & stars in myblate teens in the 70's. It was a joy to watch your video. Informative, entertaining & full of details at that moment 😊

This was the first thing I saw of Bogart when I was 10 years old besides a couple of Warner Brothers cartoons, back in 1963!

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Connie Francis was voted the best female entertainer of the 20th century !

He also made 100s of stars of the black community which he loved inc Armstrong...

Great documentary!

She’s still alive. I wonder if she’s still painting. I love she dated Sammy Davis Jr

Al Jolson was racist. His blackface did nothing but perpetuate negative stereotypes against Black people. This was in the 20’s and unfortunately by the 50’s this practice of portraying a character of a different race was still common. When Audrey Hepburn came along in the 50’s she was different. Even though it was common in her time for actors to play characters of different races, she said no to a role as the Southeast Asian character of Princess Tuptim in "The King and I." She wanted real diversity in Hollywood. Rita Moreno played the same character instead, which wasn't the best choice because she wasn't Asian. This shows how important it is to have actors who match the characters they play. They could have gotten half Chinese half English actress Nancy Kwan to play Princess Tuptim.

I hate musicals

Jean Harlow and Ingrid Bergman weren’t pretty at all. In that time period Ava Gardner and Vivien Leigh were the only beautiful stars. Then Elizabeth Taylor became beautiful as she grew

10:02 Physical abuse was so common and ok back then. Disgusting.

John Huston won the golden globe for best supporting actor in a motion picture in The Cardinal in 1964

so much variety, and i bet the ice cream tasted better too! and no stupid salted caramel or gagging mochi in sight

What's left of Hollywood today couldn't be more different.

Its 2024, im 40 years old and still randomly singing the lyrics to this advert. Crazy.

An amazing entertainer!

One of the greatest episodes of this great series. I can’t help but weep over the nostalgia.

Still and will always be the best puppet 🎥 ever made!

I love his singing

He was great I listen every day and never get tired of literally ing over a nd over the greatest

Joseph Cotten narrating great voice

The people who lived then are now gone, including the STARS, sharing the same end as the little people

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqbLh5-laKZ7jLM you will find a advert for HB Irish Ice Cream same as Walls in England.

Those 30s musical revues are fun to watch . Talk about doing stuff to just look good , I’m here for it!

Stunning that so little time was devoted to the Marx Brothers, one of the most hilarious comedy teams of all time.