The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Cast

Danny Thomas

as Jerry Golding

Peggy Lee

as Judy Lane

Eduard Franz

as David Golding

Mildred Dunnock

as Ruth Golding

Alex Gerry

as Uncle Louie

Allyn Joslyn

as George Miller

Tom Tully

as Dan McGurney

Harold Gordon

as Rabbi Roth

Hal Ross

as Joseph

Murray Alper

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Reviews

Similar Movies

Doctor Rhythm

Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

⭐ 6.0

Snowfall in Taipei

May, a woman singer from the mainland of China, suddenly loses her voice and has conflicts with Ah Lei, her producer and secret lover. In anger she goes to Old Town of Jingtong where she meets Xiao Mo, a warmhearted man. Xia Mo helps May find a place to stay, and finds her work at local restaurant. May finds happiness and consolation in the old streets of the small town, and her voice gets better and better.

⭐ 4.0

Hi-De-Ho

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passing by the apartment hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.

⭐ 8.0

When the White Lilacs Bloom Again

Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a famous singer. But Therese is about to marry her best friend Peter. Little does Willy know that he and Therese now have a teenage daughter.

⭐ 5.4

Fleisch ist mein Gemüse

Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North German lowlands with the dance combo "Tiffanys". In this bizarre universe of Korn, Klaus & Klaus and Koteletts, bandleader Gurki teaches him how to deliver cheerful, upbeat music. To escape the vicious circle of shooting festivals and village weddings, Heinz wants to start a solo career and become a hit producer...

⭐ 5.5

High Heels

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...

⭐ 7.0

An Affair to Remember

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

⭐ 7.4

A Mermaid in Paris

A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.

⭐ 6.6

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.

⭐ 7.5

Beat the Band

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

⭐ 4.0

Raise Your Voice

A coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for a summer session at a performing arts academy in Los Angeles. In the academy, she experiences a whole new way of life in the big city, far from the small town lifestyle she's used to.

⭐ 6.5

There's Always a Price Tag

A wealthy businessman's wife tries to cover up his suicide to cash in his life insurance policy.

⭐ 6.4

The End of Fame

A highly accurate autobiographic film that depicts the aftermath of Bülent Ersoy's gender change and how she, her friends and community reacts to it.

⭐ 1.0

Putte Wickman à la clarinette

Documentary about the Swedish clarinettist Putte Wickman featuring interviews and performances.

⭐ 0.0

On the Clouds

It follows Nic Vega, a man with a successful past in music. When he he has lost everything: fame, friends and inspiration, he decides to return to Francesca, breaking into her peaceful and happy life.

⭐ 6.0

American Idol: The Worst of Seasons 1-4

THE WORST OF AMERICAN IDOL brings you all four seasons of the craziest auditions and most bizarre moments in over 2 and 1/2 hours of sidesplitting, jaw dropping splendor. Awful singing, dreadful dancing, questionable fashions, argumentative contestants -- what were these people thinking?

⭐ 0.0

Let's Get Lost

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

⭐ 7.0

Tough Enough

An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.

⭐ 5.1

Country at Heart

A struggling country singer meets a Nashville songwriter in need of inspiration. Teaming up to write a song, their work gets complicated but results in both a hit song...and true love.

⭐ 6.4

Camp Harlow

On the brink of a family crisis, Alex finds herself being sent to the last place she wants to be, summer camp. Knowing that a young admirer from school will be at the camp, Alex reluctantly agrees. Thrown into a group of people she has never met, Alex is determined to shut out the world. However, Alex is brought out of the corners of her own heart by the most unlikely of friends: a horse.

⭐ 9.5