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Frederick Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director. He is noted for having directed the first feature film using spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer (1927) and the first feature movie with sychronization soundtrack, Don Juan (1926).
Alan Crosland (1894-1936) was a director who made the first sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), for Warner Brothers. He also directed historical dramas, musicals and comedies, and worked with stars like Al Jolson, John Barrymore and Dolores Costello.
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- August 10, 1894
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Dec 29, 2019 · The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927): The first words told by Al Jolson. Read my review illustrated by further excerpts at: http://www.acinemahistory.com/2019/12... Often presented as the...
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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech (in several isolated sequences).
The Jazz Singer is widely believed to be the first sound film, despite clear and overwhelming evidence to the contrary; it was, however, the first film with a synchronized music and vocal track to truly capture the public imagination, ushering in the sound revolution.
The Jazz Singer: Directed by Alan Crosland. With Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer. The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
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The Jazz Singer. Al Jolson and Eugenie Besserer in The Jazz Singer (1927), directed by Alan Crosland. On Yom Kippur, cantor Rabinowitz (played by Warner Oland) looks forward to when his 13-year-old son, Jakie (Robert Gordon), will succeed him at the synagogue.
