They are married in California after he collapses upon returning to the stage. In an Arkansas hospital, he runs into the much younger Ellen again and a romance blooms. Jolson is slow to fully recover, but takes time to work the hospital circuit. Her character is based on Jolson’s fourth wife, Erle Galbraith, an X-ray technician. On the tour Jolson collapses with a fever and is hospitalized in Sicily, where he’s nursed by attractive down-to-earth Arkansas nurse Ellen Clark (Barbara Hale, before her Perry Mason days). Ralph Bryant, a movie producer in civilian life, who ensures the tour is a success for the old-timer who was worried the young soldiers wouldn’t know him. Following the lead of his loyal manager Steve Martin (William Demarest), to work for the service in their entertainment department, Jolson signs up to entertain the troops.
When his lovely mom (Tamara Shayne) becomes ill with pneumonia and dies, his cantor father (Ludwig Donath) disapproves of his aimless life– especially with a war against the Nazis taking place. Playwright friend Tom Baron has him star in his Broadway production of “You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet.” Despondent, Jolson quits the hit show and for six years leisurely travels the world, buys racehorses and prizefighters, and dates beautiful women. It tells how Jolson retired from showbiz because of his wife Julie Benson, but she divorces him when she sees he misses performing and craves the applause of the crowd. The pic takes up where the first picture ended. The song highlights, with Jolson’s voice dubbed over the actor Parks, include “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby,” “Is It True What They Say About Dixie?,” “After You’ve Gone”, “I Only Have Eyes For You,” “You Made Me Love You”, “For Me and My Gal,” “Let Me Sing and I’m Happy”, “Sonny Boy”, “Toot Toot Tootsie,” “Baby Face,” “Carolina in the Morning,” “About a Quarter to Nine”, “April Showers”, “Back In Your Own Backyard,” “Chinatown, My Chinatown,” “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” “Pretty Baby,” “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along” and, his signature song, “Mammy.” This time around it’s directed by Henry Levin (“Murderers’ Row”/”Genghis Khan”/”The Farmer Takes a Wife”), following the same formulaic track as the original, and with almost the same cast and Larry Parks once again playing Jolson. Green’s popular 1946 The Jolson Story that completes Jolson’s biopic. It’s the Technicolor musical sequel to Alfred E. “Without Jolson’s voice on the soundtrack this film wouldn’t have worked.” Ralph Bryant), Tamara Shayne (Mama Yoelson), Eric Wilton (Henry), Robert Emmett Keane (Charlie) Runtime: 95 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Sidney Buchman Columbia Pictures 1949)
(director: Henry Levin screenwriter: Sidney Buchman cinematographer: William Snyder editor: William Lyon music: George Duning cast: Larry Parks (Al Jolson), Barbara Hale (Ellen Clark), William Demarest (Steve Martin), Ludwig Donath (Cantor Yoelson), Bill Goodwin (Tom Baron), Myron McCormick (Col.
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