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3y003 JAZZ SINGER S2 recreation 1sh 2001 artwork of Al Jolson in blackface!

Date Sold 6/17/2010
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An Unfolded S2 Re-Creation One-Sheet Movie Poster (No. 81 1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

The Jazz Singer, the classic 1927 Alan Crosland musical biography ("Warner Bros. Supreme Triumph"; "Based upon the play by Samson Raphaelson as produced on the spoken stage by Lewis & Gordon and Sam H. Harris") starring Al Jolson (as Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin), May McAvoy, Warner Oland (as Cantor Rabinowitz), Eugenie Besserer (as Sara Rabinowitz, Jolson's mother), Otto Lederer (as Moisha Yudelson), Robert Gordon (as the young Jakie Rabinowitz), Cantor Joseff Rosenblatt (a real life Cantor who was hired to perform the service in the movie), and Myrna Loy (in an early uncredited role!). Note that this movie is justifiably famous as the first "all talking" movie (even though it was only partially a talkie). Al Jolson was well known as "the world's greatest entertainer", and Samson Raphaelson loosely based his source stage play on Jolson's own life, and George Jessel played the lead on Broadway. When Warner Brothers went to make the first "talking picture" (the movie is widely referred to as the "first talking picture", although it was not "all talking"), they felt that "The Jazz Singer" with its music and strong dramatic content would make a perfect choice, but they went with Jolson in the lead role instead of Jessel.
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Important Added Info: Note that this particular poster is NOT an exact re-creation of an original poster from this movie, as are virtually all of the other S2 re-creations! Why? Because the original release one-sheet poster for The Jazz Singer was somewhat disappointing, and the image on the back of the program book was this wonderful silhouette art of Al Jolson in blackface, so the owners of the S2 company decided to use this image instead! Note that this is a poster from the "S2 Art Group". This company bought 100 year-old lithograph presses, and completely refurbished them, and recreated stone litho printing plates for classic movie posters, and then printed them on the 100 year-old presses, in exactly the same way the posters were originally printed (re-creating them down to the finest detail within the art, and even including the tiny writing from the bottom of the poster), and exactly 27" x 41"! In some ways they are better, because they are printed on a much higher quality paper (similar to that of a 30x40, but somewhat heavier, and not on a high-gloss coated stock, but a "flat" finish). These posters were printed a few at a time, and they retailed for $325 each, and I believe that the company is no longer creating new ones, although they still have a small stock of some or all of the ones they already created. If you have never seen one of these in person, you might think they are simply "a reproduction", but they really look incredible in person (I absolutely am not exaggerating about this!). Most of us could never hope to have the original of this poster (which sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars!), and this recreation is certainly an attractive and affordable alternative! IMPORTANT! Note that the S2 Art Group also has a lower quality 24" x 36" series of recreations that retail for $49 each, but are NOT stone lithographs. The recreation offered here is the 27" x 41" size with ultra high quality printing. UPDATE! In 2009, an unscrupulous individual took a S2 recreation of a "Dracula" one-sheet, and had it somewhat "aged", and then had a restorer linenback the poster (restoring the defects they had just added, and adding slight changes to make it indistinguishable from the original!), and the resulting poster looked so wonderful that a major auction house put it on the cover of their catalog as a 1931 original, AND a leading restorer "certified" the doctored poster as a 1931 original! THAT'S HOW WONDERFUL THE QUALITY OF THESE POSTERS IS!

Condition: fine. The poster is in very nice condition!
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