I will not encourage others to fly.

Singer                          

Selected Works:

Movies:

Mammy's Boy - 1923 - unfinished
A Plantation Act - 1926
The Jazz Singer - 1927
The Singing Fool - 1928
Hollywood Snapshots No 11 - 1929 - short subject
Sonny Boy - 1929 - Cameo
Say It with Songs - 1929
New York Nights - 1929 - Cameo
Mammy - 1930
Show Girl in Hollywood - 1930 - Cameo
Big Boy - 1930
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum - 1933
Wonder Bar - 1934
Go Into Your Dance - 1935
Paramount Headliner: Broadway Highlights No 1 - 1935 - short subject
The Singing Kid - 1936
Hollywood Handicap - 1938 - short subject
Rose of Washington Square - 1939
Hollywood Cavalcade - 1939
Swanee River - 1939
Rhapsody in Blue - 1945 - brief scene with Jolson in blackface introducing "Swanee"
The Jolson Story - 1946 - double and singing voice for Larry Parks with brief onscreen appearance
Screen Snapshots: Off the Air - 1947 - short subject
Jolson Sings Again - 1949 - singing voice for Larry Parks
Oh, You Beautiful Doll - 1949 - voice only
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Famous Feet - 1950 - short subject - narrator

Theater:

La Belle Paree - 1911
Vera Violetta - 1911
The Whirl of Society - 1912
The Honeymoon Express - 1913
Children of the Ghetto - before 1915
Robinson Crusoe, Jr - 1916
Sinbad - 1918
Bombo - 1921
Big Boy - 1925
Artists and Models of 1925 - 1925 - added to cast in 1926
Big Boy - 1926 - revival
The Wonder Bar - 1931
Hold on to Your Hats - 1940

Famous songs:

That Haunting Melodie - 1911 Jolson's first hit
Ragging the Baby to Sleep - 1912
The Spaniard That Blighted My Life - 1912
That Little German Band - 1913
You Made Me Love You - 1913
Back to the Carolina You Love - 1914
Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula - 1916
I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Isles - 1916
I'm All Bound Round With the Mason Dixon Line - 1918
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody - 1918
Tell That to the Marines - 1919
I'll Say She Does - 1919
I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now - 1919
Swanee - 1920
Avalon - 1920
O-H-I-O - O-My! O! - 1921
April Showers - 1921
Angel Child - 1922
Coo Coo' - 1922
Oogie Oogie Wa Wa - 1922
That Wonderful Kid From Madrid - 1922
Toot, Toot, Tootsie - 1922
Juanita - 1923
California, Here I Come - 1924
I Wonder What's Become of Sally? - 1924
All Alone - 1925
I'm Sitting on Top of the World - 1926
When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along - 1926
My Mammy - 1927
Back in Your Own Backyard - 1928
There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder - 1928
Sonny Boy - 1928
Little Pal - 1929
Liza - All the Clouds'll Roll Away - 1929
Let Me Sing and I'm Happy - 1930
The Cantor - A Chazend'l Ofn Shabbos - 1932
You Are Too Beautiful - 1933
Ma Blushin' Rosie - 1946
Anniversary Song - 1946
Alexander's Ragtime Band - 1947
Carolina in the Morning - 1947
About a Quarter to Nine - 1947
Waiting for the Robert E Lee - 1947
Golden Gate - 1947
When You Were Sweet Sixteen - 1947
If I Only Had a Match - 1947
After You've Gone - 1949
Is It True What They Say About Dixie? - 1949
Are You Lonesome Tonight? - 1950.                                              

Mother Naomi Ettas Cantor
Father Moshe Reuben Yoelson