Blackface to Blacklist: Al Jolson, Larry Parks, and The Jolson Story - Doug McClelland - Google Books

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The Jolson Story, a landmark Hollywood musical biography, brought has-been blackface singer Al Jolson one of show business' great comebacks, made a star of Larry Parks, the young "B" movie actor who played him, and spawned a sequel. For the first time,…