Mammy
About Mammy
Al Fuller is the end man with the Merry Meadow Minstrels. Westy is the interlocutor, and both men want Nora Meadows, the owner's daughter. The show is failing until Al talks a sheriff into putting money in. After Al tells Nora he loves her, Westy is jealous. Mitchell Lewis, caught cheating at cards, loads real bullets into Al's stage gun. Al fires at Westy in the act and is arrested. He escapes on a freight train. Lewis confesses, and Al is cleared.
Cast & crew
More about Mammy
Michael Curtiz directed this Warner Bros. picture, Jolson's fourth feature, after The Jazz Singer, The Singing Fool, and Say It with Songs. Irving Berlin wrote the songs and the story, titled Mr. Bones. Barney McGill photographed it, including Technicolor sequences. Walter Morosco produced it. Wikidata gives 84 minutes. Al Jolson plays Al Fuller. Lois Moran plays Nora Meadows. Lowell Sherman plays Westy. Louise Dresser plays Mother Fuller. Hobart Bosworth plays Meadows. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Curtiz staged the minstrel numbers with McGill, and Berlin supplied the songs and the Mr. Bones story.
Look
Barney McGill shot the minstrel stage, with some sequences in Technicolor.
Music
Irving Berlin wrote the songs.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Berlin's story title was Mr. Bones.
- Lewis loads the gun because he was caught cheating at cards, and he expects Al to be blamed.
- The color is in sequences, not the whole film.
- Al's exit is a freight train.
Scenes
- Lewis puts live bullets in the stage gun.
- Al jumps a freight train after the shooting.
