Al Jolson
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 Al Jolson facts

• At the peak of his career, he was d믭 "The World's Greatest Entertainer"
• His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach"
• Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart and others
• Dylan once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel"
• Broadway critic Gilbert Seldes compared him to the Greek god Pan, claiming that Jolson represented "the concentration of our national health and gaiety"
• In the 1930s, Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer
• Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours
• Although he is best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), he later starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s
• After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II
• After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with The Jolson Story (1946), for which Larry Parks played Jolson, with the singer dubbing for Parks