JOLSON STORY, THE (director: Alfred E. Green; screenwriters:
Sidney Buchman/Harry Chandlee/Stephen Longstreet/Andrew Solt;
cinematographer: Joseph Walker; editor: William Lyon; music:
Saul Chaplin/George Duning/Hugo Friedhofer/Arthur Morton/Marlin
Skiles/Morris Stoloff; cast: Larry Parks (Al Jolson), Evelyn
Keyes (Julie Benson), William Demarest (Steve Martin), Bill
Goodwin (Tom Baron), Ludwig Donath (Cantor Yoelson), Tamara
Shayne (Mama Yoelson), Scotty Beckett (Asa Yoelson), John
Alexander (Lew Dockstader), Eddie Kane (Florenz Ziegfeld);
Runtime: 128; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Gordon Griffith/Sidney
Skolsky; Columbia; 1946)  "It has the music alright, but the
dramatics are corny, tiresome and not reliable."  Reviewed by
Dennis Schwartz  A curio trip down memory lane musical biopic of
the then iconic relic Al Jolson. It has the music alright, but
the dramatics are corny, tiresome and not reliable. The gaudy
fictionalized biopic whitewashes some of the ugly marital
problems Jolson had, as it instead makes t