Minstrel Days (1941)
20m
Running Time
September 6, 1941Release Date
Minstrel Days (1941)
20m
Running Time
September 6, 1941Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
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.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Bud Jamison
Interlocutor
Al Herman
Endman
Billy Elliott
Endman
Willie Best
Singer
Bobby Connolly
Director
Eddie Cantor
Eddie: edited from 'Roman Scandals'
Al Jolson
Jakie: edited from 'The Jazz Singer'
Knox Manning
Narrator
Venord Bradley
One of the Three Hi-Hatters
Owen Crump
Writer
Gordon Hollingshead
Producer
Ernest Haller
Cinematographer