Saw the ad for the Chicago International Film Festival in the Reader [October 11], and while I agree the Lewis Milestone-Al Jolson movie is a classic, the picture you published is not from Hallelujah, ...

Only last spring, Al Jolson vowed that he would never have a radio show of his own. Why should he bother? The Technicolor movie based on his life (Columbia’s The Jolson Story) was wowing the box ...

Manhattan’s garishly grand Roxy Theater offered Al Jolson $40,000 a week to appear six times daily on the Roxy stage. Last week he turned it down. No one who had ever heard his shamelessly sentimental ...