https://oatymcloafy.com/2020/09/08/90-the-jazz-singer-1927/ The Life and Times of Miss Mittens Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:42:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://oatymcloafy.com/2020/09/08/90-the-jazz-singer-1927/#comment-48 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:42:05 +0000 https://oatymcloafy.com/?p=158#comment-48 […] at the time she made this film – they met in Los Angeles when she was asked to help promote The Jazz Singer.  She was 19 at the time and he was 42 (although this article in The Reading Eagle said he was 45, […]

]]> https://oatymcloafy.com/2020/09/08/90-the-jazz-singer-1927/#comment-41 Fri, 13 Oct 2023 01:59:21 +0000 https://oatymcloafy.com/?p=158#comment-41 […] Also, 13 minutes in and we’ve already got our first blackface performance. Add it to the list. […]

]]> https://oatymcloafy.com/2020/09/08/90-the-jazz-singer-1927/#comment-39 Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:39:29 +0000 https://oatymcloafy.com/?p=158#comment-39 […] I really want to take a tally of the percentage of the musicals on this list that feature their white stars in blackface or parody other racial stereotypes, […]

]]> https://oatymcloafy.com/2020/09/08/90-the-jazz-singer-1927/#comment-34 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:06:26 +0000 https://oatymcloafy.com/?p=158#comment-34 […] nooooooooooo.  I thought after The Jazz Singer I was in the clear for shit like this on the list, but nope, turns out one of the […]

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