Sep 06, 1941
20 min
Full-HD

Minstrel Days (1941)

This Vitaphone musical featurette features a minstrel show, with traditional interlocutor and Mr. Bones, doing many old time songs (mostly Stephen Foster) with Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface, via stock footage from earlier Warners films, inserted doing some of their trademark songs. This short was reissued November of 1946 and again in September of 1953.

Category

Music History

Country

United States of America

Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Bud Jamison

Interlocutor

Al Herman

Endman

Billy Elliott

Endman

Willie Best

Singer

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