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Singing Fool, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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After the The Jazz Singer, movie fans and Hollywood honchos knew what they wanted: more songs, more sentiment...more AI Jolson. So The Jazz Singer star became The Singing Fool in the heartfeIt rags-to-riches-to-rags saga of Al Stone, a singing waiter who becomes a sensation, then Ioses everything when his two-timing wife walks out - and takes Al's beloved Iittle boy with her. AIong the way, Jolson belts out It All Depends on You, Sittin' on Top of the World and Sonny Boy, the tearjerker that became the star's signature song. Audiences ate it up. "UntiI the arrival in 1939 of Gone With The Wind, the most financially successfuI sound picture in HoIlywood's history was The Singing Fool (The HoIlywood MusicaI). |
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