Posted on 06/15/2015 5:30:43 PM PDT by BBell
Al Jolson!!!!!! The first white person that I know of to make money off of being transracial!!!!
Thanks for the correction. That he was actively denying he was white and actively trying to deceive the world was not clear to me.
The movie, The Jolson Story (1946), is a good way to enjoy Al Jolson’s songs. Larry Parks plays Al Jolson and lip synchs his songs. See if you can spot the part where the real Jolson appears. In his time, Jolson was publicly honored as the world’s greatest entertainer. He was enormously popular to generations and indefatigable in entertaining the GIs in WWII and Korea to bolster morale. He died in 1950 from the exhaustion of his Korea tour.
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