Blackface to Blacklist: Al Jolson, Larry Parks, and 'The Jolson Story'

by Doug McClelland

The Jolson Story, a landmark Hollywood musical biography, brought has-been blackface singer Al Jolson one of show business' great comebacks, made a star of Larry Parks, the young "B" movie actor who played him, and spawned a sequel. For the first time, McClelland tells the story of how these films were made. Subsequently, in the anti-Communist climate of 1951 America, Larry Parks's career was destroyed when he admitted he had been a Communist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810835304
• ISBN13: 9780810835306
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"