[uscabjd]

When I was growing up - many years ago - the holiday season would bring, on TV, many of the same old movies. One of them was "The Al Jolson Story", about a Jewish singer who stared in the first talkie. In real life, Jolson appeared in black-face. Not surprisingly, he appeared in black-face in the movie. As a result, the movie is never shown, despite the face it is excellent, has great music and acting, and is historically accurate.

Who are the white liberals who decide these things?

[Inyo-Mono]

I loved that film too. Starred Larry Parks (I beleive) as Jolson. And the big song of the movie was Jolson's "Mammy."

[AlexW]

"When I was growing up - many years ago - the holiday season would bring, on TV, many of the same old movies"

For me it was the Amos and Andy series.
It was about 1960, and they were on every afternoon
after I got home from school.
As the Kingfish would say, "Dem fish sho is greezy"

They were classic.

[B-Chan]

The Jolson Story is shown uncut and in its entirety on TCM fairly often.

I'm a huge Jolson fan, by the way. He truly was "America's greatest entertainer".