Richard Bernstein's biography charts Jolson's success and addresses the reviled practice of blackface that helped to make ...

Back in the 1920s, a comedy called “Abie’s Irish Rose,” about a Jewish boy married to a Catholic girl and the havoc that ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie with talking actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927.

As in the earlier iterations, it is your job to root for them, and you will not find it hard to, so likable and attractive are they both, and so loudly does the series cry "rom-com!" Bell, of course, ...