The Jazz Singer was a wonderful novel, then a great movie with Al Jolson. A little known updated version was made in 1959 by Jerry Lewis, which you can watch on the Arts channel of TV4U.Com, the 48 channel IPTV network.
It can also be watched directly at TVSTele.Net.
It was the zenith of Jerry Lewis' career and he was at the stage that NBC had to indeluge him with the opportunity to do shows like this. Let's just say it's not MacBeth, but it is Jerry Lewis and the story is the story.
Much better is the treatment of a Sholom Alechiem story with Nancy Walker and Zero Mostel.
Alecheim was the "Jewish Mark Twain" who lives on in shows inspired by his stories such as Fiddler on the Roof.
Come for Jerry Lewis, but stay for Shalom Alecheim. It's entertainment, culture, and history....well worth while.
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