Other Titles • The Jazz Singer • Der Jazzsänger (1928) • Das Lied der Väter (1929)
Trivia from The Jazz Singer (1927)
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THE JAZZ SINGER was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1996.
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Film debut for Al Jolson.
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Nugent Slaughter won an Academy Award for Engineering Effects, and Warner Brothers received a special award for producing this, the first talking picture.
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Though there were one or two sound pictures prior to THE JAZZ SINGER, this film effectively ended the era of silent movies. It did not have talking throughout, only a few musical and conversational sequences. But audiences loved it, and soon all the studios were rushing to convert to sound.
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