The Jazz Singer Articles

The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) 2) ADAM'S RIB (1949) 3) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) 4) THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) 5) ALIEN (1979) 6) ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) 7) ALL MY BABIES (1953) 8) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 9) ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) 10) ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) 11) ALL THE [...]

Al Jolson and May McAvoy. Zero chemistry, but film history all the same.   Though hardly a cinematic masterpiece — or even a good film, for that matter — the 1927 version of The Jazz Singer remains one of the most important motion pictures ever made. This part-musical, part-silent, all-mush melodrama marked the first time in a feature film that synchronized sound and voices could [...]