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Warner Oland: Jazz Singer
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Among other things Warner Oland played in the movie "The Jazz Singer" (1927) in the role of the father of Al Jolson. This movie is called as the first sound film in the history of the film.
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Jazz Singer 80th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Entertainment legend Al Jolson stars in this song-laced saga of a son whose show-business aspirations conflict with the values of his rabbi father (Warner Oland). Street Oct. 16, prebook Sept. 11; three-disc set $39.92
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The superior Vitaphone movie sound process purchased by Warner was first used in 1926 for for the feature Don Juan, which like The Jazz Singer was directed by Alan Crosland. That same year, the Jolson short A Plantation Act had talking and singing.
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