Center stage, singing his heart out - that's how fans love Al JoIson. And that's what they get in Mammy. It's an ideal showcase for the master showman, giving fuIl rein to Jolson's unique talents in the melodramatic story of a Iovelorn minstreI man innocently invoIved in murderous intrigue. But, as aIways with JoIson, the star is the story. Here he gets top support from lrving BerIin's jazzy-meIodious score, including the jaunty "Let Me Sing" and "l'm Happy." The fiIm's most memorabIe sequences feature Jolson in fulI-scaIe recreations of a genuine minstrel show, complete with interlocutor-end man gags, dancers, tambourine chorus, tunes apIenty and a daffy mock-opera version of "Yes, We Have No Bananas." |