The movie is a remake, of course, of Al Jolson’s 1927 “The Jazz Singer,” which was the first commercially successful talking picture. The remake has played with time in an interesting way: It sets the story in the present, but it places the characters in some kind of time warp. ...
Neil Diamond, “Love on the Rocks” in ‘The Jazz Singer’ Hot 100 Peak Position: 2 (three weeks), Peak Date: 1/10/1981 Neil Diamond starred in the 1980 remake of the 1927 movie musical The Jazz Singer, putting his heart and soul on the line with this heartbreaking tune. The film...
1980: The Jazz Singer EMI 1980: The Jazz Singer No one disputes Neil Diamond’s prodigious musical talent. His acting talent, uh, that some people would dispute. In this update of the famous landmark of early sound cinema, the Jewish Elvis plays a 40 year old man who remains desperately...
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Released in December 1980 "The Jazz Singer", starring Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz, just squeaks into our consideration of popular songs from '70s movies. Based on the 1925 play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, it is the fourth screen adaptation of that work. First...
Here are several generations’ worth of crummy movies — the single worst movie released each year from 1980 to today. 1980:The Jazz Singer EMI 1980:The Jazz Singer No one disputes Neil Diamond’s prodigious musical talent. His acting talent, uh, that some people would dispute. In this upda...
1980:The Jazz Singer EMI 1980:The Jazz Singer No one disputes Neil Diamond’s prodigious musical talent. His acting talent, uh, that some people would dispute. In this update of the famous landmark of early sound cinema, the Jewish Elvis plays a 40 year old man who remains desperately fix...
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Here are several generations’ worth of crummy movies — the single worst movie released each year from 1980 to today. 1980:The Jazz Singer EMI 1980:The Jazz Singer No one disputes Neil Diamond’s prodigious musical talent. His acting talent, uh, that some people would dispute. In this upda...
Acccordng to him, the project is his long-ago-announced jazz movie project set in the 1940's, and, in the film, Ross would play a jazz singer who runs a juke joint. When and if she finally does say yes, it would be her first acting role since the 1999 TV movie Double Platinum....