''The Jazz Singer'' is a 1952
remake of the famous 1927 talking picture ''
The Jazz Singer
''The Jazz Singer'' is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolate ...
''. It stars
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American actor, singer, nightclub comedian, producer, and philanthropist. He created and starred in one of the most successful and long-running sitc ...
,
Peggy Lee, and
Eduard Franz
Eduard Franz Schmidt (October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1983) was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film ''Sins of Jezebel'', Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's ''The Ten ...
, and was nominated for an Oscar for best musical score. The film follows about the same storyline as the version starring
Al Jolson
Al Jolson (born Eizer Yoelson; June 9, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American Jewish singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, and was self-billed ...
. It was also distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
Plot summary
As Jerry Golding (a young Korean War veteran) scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who had hoped that Jerry would instead follow in the footsteps of six consecutive generations of cantors in their family. Sorrowfully, Cantor David Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "
Kol Nidre
Kol Nidre (also known as Kol Nidrey or Kol Nidrei; Aramaic: ''kāl niḏrē'') is a Hebrew and Aramaic declaration which is recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement"). Strictly ...
" in his ailing father's absence.
Main cast
Production
Eduard Franz, who played the role of the aged and ailing cantor battling his son, would go on to reprise his role in the
television version of the story starring
Jerry Lewis that would be broadcast just seven years later in 1959.
Accolades
References
External links
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1952 films
1952 drama films
1950s romantic musical films
American musical drama films
American romantic drama films
American romantic musical films
Remakes of American films
Films scored by Max Steiner
Films scored by Ray Heindorf
Films about Jews and Judaism
Films about music and musicians
American films based on plays
Films directed by Michael Curtiz
Warner Bros. films
1950s musical drama films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
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