"The Jazz Singer (1980 film) The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American drama film and a remake of the 1927 film ""The Jazz Singer"", released by EMI Films. It starred Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J. Furie. Although the film was a critical flop, the soundtrack was enormously successful, eventually reaching multi-platinum status and becoming Diamond's most successful album to date. It resulted in three hit songs, ""America"", ""Love on the Rocks"" and ""Hello Again"". Yussel Rabinovitch is a young Jewish cantor performing at the synagogue of his imperious father."
"one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. Diamond was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for the same role in this movie, winning the latter. The only other time an actor was nominated for both awards for the same performance was Pia Zadora, who uniquely won both in 1981. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Jazz Singer (1980 film) The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American drama film and a remake of the 1927 film ""The Jazz Singer"", released by EMI Films."
"The Jazz Singer (1952 film) The Jazz Singer is a 1952 remake of the famous 1927 talking picture ""The Jazz Singer"". It starred Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz, and was nominated for an Oscar for best musical score. The film follows about the same storyline as the version starring Al Jolson. It was also distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. As Jerry Golding (a young Korean War veteran) scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who had hoped that Jerry would instead follow in the footsteps of six consecutive generations of cantors in"
"1952. Warner Brothers re-teamed Curtiz and Thomas in another project: the 25th-anniversary remake of the first talking film, ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927), with Thomas in the Al Jolson role, ""The Jazz Singer"". Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) is the prolific tunesmith, whose fortunes take an upswing in 1908 when he meets and falls in love with Grace LeBoy (Doris Day). Kahn's career ascends to spectacular heights via such hits as ""Pretty Baby"", ""My Buddy"", ""Toot, Toot, Tootsie"", and ""Makin' Whoopee"", only to go into eclipse when he loses his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash. An album of the same name"
"and to cast Jessel in the lead role. However, when the studio refused his salary demands, Jessel turned down the movie role, which was eventually played by Al Jolson. According to Jessel during an interview around 1980, Warner Brothers still owed Jessel money for earlier roles and lacked enough funds to produce this movie with a leading star. Jolson, the biographical inspiration for the movie, became the movie's main financial backer. His next movie role was in 1926 in ""Private Izzy Murphy"". Whereas Jolson's film career skyrocketed after the 1927 release of ""The Jazz Singer"", Jessel remained in smaller movie"
"a 1978 feature film, directed by Randal Kleiser and choreographed by Patricia Birch, who had also choreographed the show on Broadway. In addition to Birch, three performers from the stage version carried over to the cast: Jamie Donnelly reprised her role as Jan, John Travolta performed as lead Danny Zuko while Jeff Conaway played Kenickie, whose character was given a closer friendship to Danny than seen in the musical. Australian country/easy listening singer Olivia Newton-John was cast as Sandy; to accommodate the casting move, the character's nationality was rewritten, and two songs added (the big-band inspired ""You're the One that"
"9, 1983.</ref> He said he had been losing feeling in his right leg ""for a number of years but ignored it."" When he collapsed, he had no strength in either leg. He underwent a long rehabilitation process just before starting principal photography on his film ""The Jazz Singer"" (1980). He was so convinced he was going to die that he wrote farewell letters to his friends. A planned film version of ""You Don't Bring Me Flowers"" to star Diamond and Streisand fell through when Diamond instead starred in a 1980 remake of the Al Jolson classic ""The Jazz Singer"" alongside"
"in the songs ""Hello Again"" and ""Love on the Rocks."" This song was featured in ""Saving Silverman"". Hello Again (Neil Diamond song) ""Hello Again"" is a song written by Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren that appeared in the 1980 movie ""The Jazz Singer"" and was performed by Diamond on the soundtrack album to the film. It was also released as a single and reached #6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in the US. ""Billboard"" also rated it as the #70 pop single overall for 1981. It performed less well in the UK, reaching"
"The Jazz Singer (Ford Startime) The Jazz Singer is a videotaped adaptation, starring Jerry Lewis, of Samson Raphaelson's play of the same name. It was broadcast on October 13, 1959, as the second episode of the American television anthology series on NBC, ""Ford Startime"". Cantor Rabinowitz (Eduard Franz) is upset that his son Joey (Jerry Lewis) has left home to pursue a career as a singer/comedian after showing no interest in carrying on the family's tradition of being Cantors in the synagogue. After five generations of doing so, it appears that Joey is more interested in making jokes and singing"
"father, but he refuses to speak to Jess, until Jess tells him that he now has a grandson, at which point they finally reconcile. The film ends with Jess performing ""America"", with his father and Molly in attendance. In 1976 producer Jerry Leider saw Diamond perform at the Greek Theatre and asked him to star in a film. They decided on a remake of ""The Jazz Singer"". Leider spent ten months securing the rights from Warner Bros and United Artists, and hired Jerome Kass to write a treatment for MGM who were going to finance. Stephen Foreman was hired to"
"Award and the Golden Globe Award for best actress, and the film won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, tying with ""Atlantic City"". The Boston Society of Film Critics selected Rowlands for their best actress award. The young boy Gloria was protecting, played by John Adames, tied with Sir Laurence Olivier (in ""The Jazz Singer"") for the Worst Supporting Actor Razzie award of 1980. In 2003, the American Film Institute nominated Gloria Swenson as a hero from this film for AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains. The film was remade in 1999 under the same title with"
"for the role, as he had starred in the Broadway play. When Sam Warner decided to make ""The Jazz Singer"" a musical with the Vitaphone, he knew that Jolson was the star he needed. He told Jessel that he would have to sing in the movie, and Jessel balked, allowing Warner to replace him with Jolson. Jessel never got over it and often said that Warner gave the role to Jolson because he agreed to help finance the film. Harry Warner's daughter, Doris, remembered the opening night, and said that when the picture started she was still crying over the"
"The cast was as follows: Robert Wilson as General Lee, Giuseppe Sabbatini as Garibaldi, Laurie Anderson as the Young Mrs. Lincoln, Denyce Graves as the older Mrs. Lincoln and the Earth Mother, Zheng Zhou as Abraham Lincoln, Sondra Radvanovsky as the Snow Owl and Alcmene, and Stephen Morscheck as Hercules. The Morgan State University Choir sang under the direction of Dr. Nathan Carter. Premiered in 1983. The production echoed the look of Dutch landscapes and included such characters and images as Mata Hari, Queen Wilhelmina, William the Silent, cabbages, and tulips. Gavin Bryars was a principal composer for this section,"
"biopic of Sarah Bernhardt with Glenda Jackson, came next. ""The Prince and the Pauper"" (1977) was a version of the Mark Twain novel that featured Heston, Harrison and Scott in its cast. Fleischer was then hired to replace Richard Sarafian on ""Ashanti"" (1979), starring Michael Caine, which turned out to be a flop. He received another call to replace a director, in this case Sidney J. Furie, on ""The Jazz Singer"" (1980), an unsuccessful attempt to make a film star out of Neil Diamond. ""Tough Enough"" (1983) was about the Toughman Contest starring Dennis Quaid. He made three more for"
"1980, directed by W. Stuart McDowell, assisted by Jay King, with Robert Walsh, Arleigh Richards, George House, Barbara Tirrell, Joe Meek, Gay Reed, Curtis Watkins, Dan Johnson, Obie Story, James McGuire, Jim Maxson, Christopher Cull, Timothy Oman, and, as the Nurse, Scottish folk singer and comedian Fredi Dundee. ""Romeo & Juliet"" was followed by ""Love's Labour's Lost"" with Freda Kavanagh, Deanna Deignan, Kay Colburn and Catherine Schmidt, and J. C. Hoyt, Timothy Doyle, Timothy Oman, Madeleine Potter, and Peter Siiteri, directed by Clingerman with music by Deborah Awner, which Mel Gussow of the ""New York Times"" called ""a charming chamber"
"Pettiford) and directed ""Babalu: A Celebration of the Music of Desi Arnaz and his Orchestra"". A Miami, Florida performance was given in July 2010. She toured in ""Pippin"" in 2014, playing the role of Berthe, the title character's grandmother. She appeared on Broadway in ""Pippin"", from October 9, 2014 to November 9, 2014. Arnaz made feature-film appearances, including ""The Jazz Singer"" (1980) in which she co-starred with Neil Diamond and Laurence Olivier. She earned a nomination for the 1981 Golden Globe Award, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Arnaz was a Trustee on the Board of The American Theatre"
"Jeanie Lang Jeanie Lang is an American actress, mostly known for having a lead role in the 1930 color film ""King of Jazz"". She was born on December 17, 1911 in Maplewood, Missouri, USA. She was an actress and singer and played in ""King of Jazz"" (1930) where she sings with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra (""Ragamuffin Romeo"", ""I Like to Do Things for You""), and in the shorts ""Freshman Love"" (1931) and ""The Way of All Freshmen"" (1933). She was married to Arthur C. Langkamer (Lang) who died in 1986. She died on September 19, 1993 in Broward, Florida,"
"USA. Jeanie Lang Jeanie Lang is an American actress, mostly known for having a lead role in the 1930 color film ""King of Jazz"". She was born on December 17, 1911 in Maplewood, Missouri, USA. She was an actress and singer and played in ""King of Jazz"" (1930) where she sings with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra (""Ragamuffin Romeo"", ""I Like to Do Things for You""), and in the shorts ""Freshman Love"" (1931) and ""The Way of All Freshmen"" (1933). She was married to Arthur C. Langkamer (Lang) who died in 1986. She died on September 19, 1993 in Broward,"
"on 31 May 1980. The show was directed by Peter Hall, designed by John Bury, production stage manager Marnel Sumner, stage manager Ian Thomson, press by Seymour Krawitz and Patricia McLean Krawitz. It opened with Raul Julia as Jerry, Blythe Danner as Emma, Roy Scheider as Robert, Ian Thomson as Barman, and Ernesto Gasco as Waiter. A 2000 Broadway revival was staged at the American Airlines Theatre with Juliette Binoche, Liev Schreiber, and John Slattery. A 2013 revival starring Daniel Craig as Robert, his real-life wife Rachel Weisz as Emma, and Rafe Spall as Jerry opened on 27 October at"
"included Tony Roberts, Stockard Channing, Victor Garber, Anita Gillette, Diana Canova and Ted Wass. An original cast recording was released by Casablanca Records. Film rights were purchased by Rastar Films in late 1979. Producer Ray Stark planned a 1982 release through Columbia Pictures with new songs contributed by Hamlisch and Sager. The film, however, was never produced. The first U.S. national tour opened in 1979 with Victor Garber and Ellen Greene. The musical opened in the West End on October 1, 1980 at the Shaftesbury Theatre with Tom Conti and Gemma Craven, who won a 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for"
"Jablonsky, Mark Mothersbaugh, John Powell), John Ashton Thomas (John Powell, John Debney, Alan Silvestri, James Newton Howard, Henry Jackman, Lyle Workman, Theodore Shapiro, John Ottman, John Paesano), Robert Elhai (Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Kamen, Ed Shearmur, Brian Tyler, Klaus Badelt, Ilan Eshkeri ) and J.A.C. Redford (James Horner, Thomas Newman). Conrad Salinger was the most prominent orchestrator of MGM musicals from the 1940s to 1962, orchestrating such famous films as ""Singin' in the Rain"", ""An American in Paris"", and ""Gigi"". In the 1950s, film composer John Williams frequently spent time with Salinger informally learning the craft of orchestration. Robert Russell Bennett"
"first book, ""Nothing's Sacred"", referring to it as the spookiest piece of music ever written, claiming that it may have been the piece to inspire all of Alfred Hitchcock's musical scores. Kol Nidre plays a climactic role in several film and television adaptations of ""The Jazz Singer"", originally a play by Samson Raphaelson. In the 1927 film version, Kol Nidre is sung by notable Jewish entertainer Al Jolson. In the 1959 television version, it is sung by Jewish comedian Jerry Lewis. Jewish pop singer Neil Diamond performs the song in the 1980 film version. Musician and filmmaker Nicolas Jolliet uses"
"Hello Again (Neil Diamond song) ""Hello Again"" is a song written by Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren that appeared in the 1980 movie ""The Jazz Singer"" and was performed by Diamond on the soundtrack album to the film. It was also released as a single and reached #6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in the US. ""Billboard"" also rated it as the #70 pop single overall for 1981. It performed less well in the UK, reaching only #51. It has been covered by several artists and orchestras, including Celtic Thunder, Donny Osmond and"
"from the Met performances, it was also staged in Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in 1933 with Tibbett in the title role and was revived again in Chicago in 1946. In Europe it was performed in Amsterdam in 1934 with Jules Bledsoe in the title role followed by performances in Brussels, Vienna, Milan, and London. The Teatro dell'Opera in Rome performed it in 1951, and Michigan Opera Theatre staged a major revival in 1979 with African American baritones Andrew Smith and David Arnold in the title role, conducted by Robert Willoughby Jones. After its last performance at the"
"The Last Song (1980 film) The Last Song is a 1980 American made-for-television thriller drama film about a woman who as a result of a cover up involving toxic waste is being stalked by killers. It was directed by Alan J. Levi, and starred Lynda Carter, Ronny Cox and Nicholas Pryor. It was released in 1980. Carter plays the part of Brooke Newman, a singer and young mother and singer. She has something that is the key to exposing a cover up. Somebody murders her husband. He was a sound technician who when recording some sound samples outside had recorded"
"the lead role of Semyon Semyonovitch was played by Roger Rees. It was first put on Broadway on 9 October 1980 at the ANTA Playhouse (now called the August Wilson Theatre) and closed on 30 November 1980 after 60 performances. It was directed by Jonas Jurasas, movement by Ara Fitzgerald, scene and costume by Santo Loquasto, lighting design by F. Mitchell Dana, sound design by Jack Shearing, and costume and hair design by J. Roy Helland. The cast featured Derek Jacobi, Grayson Hall, John Heffernan, Angela Pietropinto, Susan Edwards, Laura Esterman, Clarence Felder, Cheryl Giannini, Carol Mayo Jenkins, David Patrick"
"The Jazz Singer (play) The Jazz Singer is a play written by Samson Raphaelson, based on his short story ""The Day of Atonement"". Producers Albert Lewis and Max Gordon staged it on Broadway, where it debuted at the Fulton Theatre in 1925. A highly influential movie adaptation was released in 1927. Jackie Rabinowitz, the son of Jewish immigrants, has launched a career as a jazz singer, performing in blackface under the name Jack Robin. His father, a cantor for an Orthodox synagogue on the East Side of Manhattan, disapproves of Jack's choices. In the first act, Jack visits on his"
"for a second time. A Broadway revival opened at the Minskoff Theatre on February 14, 1980 and closed on November 30, 1980, after 333 performances. It was directed and choreographed by Robbins, with the book scenes co-directed by Gerald Freedman; produced by Gladys Nederlander and Tom Abbott and Lee Becker Theodore assisted the choreography reproduction. The original scenic, lighting, and costume designs were used. It starred Ken Marshall as Tony, Josie de Guzman as Maria and Debbie Allen as Anita. Both de Guzman and Allen received Tony Award nominations as Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and the musical was"
"their family. Sorrowfully, Cantor David Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the ""Kol Nidre"" in his ailing father's absence. Eduard Franz, who played the role of the aged and ailing cantor battling his son, would go on to reprise his role in the television version of the story starring Jerry Lewis that would be broadcast just seven years later, in 1959. The Jazz Singer (1952 film) The Jazz Singer is a 1952 remake of the famous 1927 talking picture"
"Gérard Surugue as Riff-Raff, Myriam Mézières as Magenta/The Usherette, Celia Booth as Columbia, Ticky Holgado as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Jeffrey Kime as Rocky Horror, Geoffrey Carey as The Narrator. In 1980, two different interpretations of the musical were staged in Germany. The first production, an un-authorized staging directed by Walter Bockmayer, opened on 20 January 1980 at the Grillo-Theater in Essen and was said to deviate greatly from previous productions in regards to characterisation, costuming and set design. Frank-N-Furter was played by the American guest star Decoven C. Washington, who thus became the first black man to embody the main antagonist."
"cast featured Nell Carter, André DeShields, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, and Charlayne Woodard. Luther Henderson, who adapted Waller's music for the revue, appeared as the production's original pianist. Replacements later in the run included Debbie Allen, Yvette Freeman, Adriane Lenox, and Alan Weeks. An original cast recording was released by RCA Victor. The West End production opened on March 22, 1979, at Her Majesty's Theatre. DeShields and Woodard were joined by Evan Bell, Annie Joe Edwards, and Jozella Reed. It was revived in London in 1995 at the Tricycle Theatre and then the Lyric Theatre, with Debby Bishop, Dawn Hope,"
"(Worst Director). Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend: Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, and Sandra Bullock in 2010, although all three for different films. Two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco (""Only When I Laugh"") and Amy Irving (""Yentl""). Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s ""The Jazz Singer"", was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role. The Aerosmith song ""I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"", as part of the original soundtrack to the 1998 film ""Armageddon"","
"The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland. The first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the film, featuring six songs performed by Al Jolson, is based on the play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, adapted from one of his short stories titled ""The Day of Atonement"". The film depicts"