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Minstrel Days

1941

20 minutes

MusicHistory

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Bud Jamison headshot

Bud Jamison

Interlocutor

Al Herman headshot

Al Herman

Endman

Billy Elliott headshot

Billy Elliott

Endman

Willie Best headshot

Willie Best

Singer