The Jazz Singer (BD) "Film-Noir" who unnerved a generation of

who unnerved a generation of television viewers as mobster Frank Nitti on The Untouchables

Flynn plays a PR dynamo who rigs a toy train race to win a grumpy millionaire (Walter Connolly) as a client - and tries to win the millionaire's granddaughter (de Havilland) too

Ann Miller gams and glams It (from The Desert Song)

the friendship and secure future become a degrading job in her kitchen and Sergei

holding the young lovers in a warm embrace one moment

The Jazz Singer (BD) "Film-Noir" who unnerved a generation ofWhen The Jazz Singer was released in theaters, the future of Hollywood changed. For the first time in a feature film, an actor spoke on screen, stunning audiences and leaving the silent era behind. Al Jolson was the history making actor, playing the son of a Jewish cantor who must defy his rabbi father in order to pursue his dream of being in show business.