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Auction History Result 3m067 JAZZ SINGER trade ad 1927 most classic silhouette art of Al Jolson in blackface! Date Sold 1/27/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Trade Ad (measures 8 1/4" x 11 1/4" [21 x 29 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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this great silhouette art of Al Jolson was used in trade magazines and on the back of the program book when the movie first came out, but sadly, it was not used on any posters (but of course, one could frame this wonderful trade ad and display it like a poster). From the 1920s on, studios would create elaborate trade ads, often in full color, and often using the finest artists of the day. They would run these ads in their studio yearbooks and exhibitor magazines, and they would also print those trade ads separately and mail them individually to theater owners, trying to get them to book that specific movie. Sometimes those books and magazines are separated and the ads, which now greatly resemble the individually printed trade ads, are sold individually. The trade ad offered here was removed from an exhibitor magazine. It can be framed and displayed (the reverse has part of a 2-page trade ad for the same movie, but it is only a text part, so we did not picture it).
UPDATED 01/21/2019: Note that the Auction Title had an incorrect date which we have corrected. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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