QUESTION What was the first film based on a musical? In 1927, The Jazz Singer marked the end of the silent film era. It featured six popular songs performed by Al Jolson. Musical films were ...

Not many people had access to a movie camera in the 1920s, but Simon J. Flood did. As manager of Flood’s Theatre in New ...

Now called the Hilbert Circle Theatre, the building has sat on Monument Circle for more than a century, delighting patrons of ...

Oklahoma commemorates its 'Favorite Son,' Will Rogers, with a four-day celebration including a movie festival, 5K run, parade ...

Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially ...

In 1962, a 12-year-old named Little Stevie Wonder recorded his first single for Motown Records. It was called “Thank You For Loving Me All The Way.” In 1978, Maybelle Carter, the matriarch of the ...

In this film, he notes, "Jolson had the confidence to rhyme 'Mammy' with 'Uncle Sammy'", adding "Mammy songs, along with the vocation 'Mammy singer', were inventions of the Jewish Jazz Age." [45] The ...

Jolson made his first films in the mid-20s, a series of early talking shorts. But his immortality came with "The Jazz Singer," the first commercially viable, part-talking feature. Signed with ...

Egyptian singers Mohammed Al Hilo and Nadia Mustafa are currently preparing a duet, while Ehab Tawfiq is gearing up to form a duo with the Tunisian singer Thekra, according to the Arabic daily Al ...

Neymar will return to Al Hilal's squad for their AFC Champions League Elite match next week after one year on the sidelines due to injury, the Saudi Arabian club announced Saturday. Al Hilal made ...

Well, if that’s the case, was the absolute bruising at the hands of the Portland Trail Blazers what Utah Jazz fans should expect this season? Of course, this idea of a dress rehearsal comes with a ...

Upon receiving a copy of Richard Bernstein’s “Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer,” I thought: He wouldn’t say that today because few people under 60 know the voice or care.