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Auction History Result 7f181 BIG BOY 8x10 still 1930 Al Jolson in blackface waiting on man in restaurant by Mack Elliott! Date Sold 7/2/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Big Boy, the 1930 Alan Crossland Kentucky Derby horse racing musical comedy ("Odds on choice in the laugh handicap"; "The laugh sweepstakes of the year!") starring Al Jolson, Claudia Dell, Louise Closser Hale, Lloyd Hughes, Eddie Phillips, and Noah Beery Sr. Note that this is a bizarre movie, to say the least! In all other Jolson movies, he appears as a white man (often in blackface singing), but in this one movie, he actually attempts to play a black African American (wearing blackface), and all the other actors do not notice this! The reason Jolson made this movie is because his films were not doing so well at the box office, and this was one of his big Broadway smashes. In the movie, he is a stable boy at a southern plantation, and he wants to ride the plantation's prize horse in the Kentucky Derby, but he ends up working as a singing waiter, and manages to ride the horse and win! There is also a long Civil War flashback, where Jolson's grandfather outsmarts a bigoted white plantation owner! At the end of the movie, Jolson, without his make-up, introduces the rest of the cast, and sings a few songs. But because Jolson plays a black man in this movie, it is virtually never shown! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that someone wrote "The Jolson Story" on the back of the still, but they were guessing, and they were definitely wrong! Also note that this still has been trimmed and it now measures 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm]. Condition: good. The still was trimmed around the edges and there is paper loss and staining in the lower right border (the above mostly only affects the blank white borders; see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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