The 1930 movie musical “Mammy" is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson's career. “Mammy" stars “The World's Greatest Entertainer" ...

Rose of Washington Square (Twentieth Century-Fox) is prefaced by the customary assurance that any resemblance to fact is purely “coincidental.” This legal formula has never rung more hollowly. The ...

In a play filled with lively music and spirited dialogue, the most stirring part of John Fredo's brilliant portrayal of Al Jolson comes with a moment of silence. It happens near the end of the first ...