Al Jolsen

posted 7 years ago by slimone (7996)
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Black face? People still did that in the 1940s? Shameful.

[–] ElKabong1940 (323) 3 years ago

So what! That was the way it was!

[–] Satan2016 (25577) 3 years ago

[–] Beau_Buffet (341) 2 years ago

This scene is set in the '20s, though.

And Jolson never did blackface to mock the black people, it was a way to show his admiration to them.