The Jazz Singer (1927)
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Robert Gordon, Richard Tucker, William Demarest, Myrna Loy, John Miljan, Roscoe Karns, Anders Randolf, Walter Rodgers, Will Walling, Ena Gregory, Yossele Rosenblatt, Nat Carr, Ernest Belcher, Neely Edwards, Audrey Ferris, Leon Holmes, Jane Arden, Ty Parvis, Fred Warren, Carolynne Snowden, Violet Bird, Joseph Green, Claire Delmar, Seymour Kupper, Mary Grace Larsen, Margaret Oliver, Marie Stapleton
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