TV Guide: Al Jolson

Listing: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0500

Sun Nov 22 08:30 AM TCM

Video: Halleluha I'm A Bum -- (Movie Clip) Four Million, Hart

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Director Lewis Milestone's tracking shot in a bank finds song-smith Lorenz Hart in his cameo as a teller, before "Bumper" (Al Jolson) and "Sunday" (Chester Conklin) discuss work in Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933.

Video: Hallelujah I'm A Bum -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Opening credits detail the staggering talent (Lewis Milestone, Rodgers & Hart, et al) behind the Depression-era Al Jolson comeback that wasn't, Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933.

Video: Hallelujah I'm A Bum -- (Movie Clip) Hoover's Cossacks

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Songs and musical dialogue by Rodgers and Hart as Bumper (Al Jolson) and Egghead (Harry Langdon) perform a highly political discourse in director Lewis Milestone's Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933.

Video: Hallelujah I'm A Bum -- (Movie Clip) You Are Too Beautiful

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The memorable Rodgers & Hart ballad "You Are Too Beautiful," sung by Al Jolson (as "Bumper") to almost-girlfriend June (Madge Evans) in director Lewis Milestone's Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933.

Video: Hallelujah I'm A Bum -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Bum Again

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

More Rodgers and Hart song as Bumper (Al Jolson) is relieved he's no longer rich, not realizing he's about to meet disconsolate June (Madge Evans), in Lewis Milestone's Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933.

Video: Hallelujah I'm A Bum -- (Movie Clip) Drop That Goose!

TCM — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Youthful John Carradine in this opening scene from the Al Jolson vehicle Hallelujah I'm A Bum, 1933, in which Al (as "Bumper") and pal Sunday (Chester Conklin) meet the mayor (Frank Morgan), wintering in Florida.

Video: Ben Prestage-No Overdubs

Hulu — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 36: One-man band, Ben Prestage takes Blues to a new generation. Using primaries homemade instruments. He is a music-making machine. Director Michael Capitelli

Video: The Singing Fool

CinemaNow — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

After the The Jazz Singer, movie fans and Hollywood honchos knew what they wanted: more songs, more sentimentmore Al Jolson.

Video: The Singing Kid

CinemaNow — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Al Jolson's a kid at heart with a heart full of song in this backstage tale of a knock-'em-dead star who loses his voice and fortune, finds recovery and romance during a country respite, and returns to Broadway to knock 'em dead again.

Video: Go Into Your Dance

CinemaNow — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Off-screen married couple Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler in their only movie pairing star in this quick-stepping back stager. Jolson is an irresponsible stage star beholden to a gangster and Keeler as a devoted hoofer who helps the star launch a new show.

Video: Gravehunting with Steve: A Journey Beneath Los Angeles

IMDB Videos — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"In Hollywood, the dead are the only permanent residents." Join author and grave hunter Steve Goldstein as we dig up 100 years of Hollywood history through extensive tours of Hollywood Forever, Hillside Memorial Park, and Holy Cross cemeteries, including the gravesites and stories of Al Jolson, Aaron Spelling, Cecil B. De Mille, Griffith J. Griffith, John Huston, Rudolph Valentino, Moe Howard, Dee Dee Ramone, Meyer Mickey Cohen, Eddie and Toni Mannix, Jack Benny, Bela Lugosi, John Candy, Sharon Tate, and dozens more. A charter member of the Hollywood Underground - an organization of grave hunters and dead celebrity stalkers who meet regularly in the crypts of Los Angeles to compare notes, and compete to be the first to photograph the latest celebrity grave - Steve explores his background and what lead him to enjoy a hobby others might find morbid. As the author of "L.A.'s Graveside Companion: Where the V.I.P.s R.I.P." and curator of beneathlosangeles.com, Steve's stories entertain

Video: Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' -- (Movie Clip) Me and My Shadow

TCM — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Salesman Wilbur (Donald O'Connor) has contrived to get himself locked in a barn with a firm tap floor where he performs the Al Jolson number "Me and My Shadow," in Feudin, Fussin' and A-Fightin', 1948.

Video: Rhapsody in Blue -- (Movie Clip) Dreyfus and Jolson

TCM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Agent Max Dreyfus (Charles Coburn) is so impressed with new client George Gershwin (Robert Alda) that he introduces him to Al Jolson (as himself, in dreaded black-face) over the phone in Rhapsody in Blue, 1945.

Video: Jolson Sings Again - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

World War II brings Al Jolson (Larry Parks) out of retirement in Jolson Sings Again (1950).

Video: Wonder Bar - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The denizens of a Parisian night club deal with murder and romance in the pre-code musical Wonder Bar (1934) starring Al Jolson.

Video: Go Into Your Dance - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Real-life husband and wife Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler star in the musical melodrama Go Into Your Dance (1935).

Video: Hollywood Song and Dance

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

This star-studded record of the early Hollywood musicals not only traces the development of sound from the original disc, but also features many Hollywood legends, including Al Jolson, James Cagney, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Betty Grable.