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Which actress has the first female line in a talking movie?

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  • Which actress has the first female line in a talking movie? I found on Wikipedia that Al Jolson had the male line, but I can't find any record of which female was first?


  • Hello Ipheleps54, Eugenie Besserer was the first female to speak in a full length talkie. She played Al Jolsen?s mother, Sara Rabinowitz in the film the Jazz Singer. ?354 words were spoken in total - 340 by Al Jolson, the star of the film, 13 by Eugenie Besserer (playing his mother) and one by Warner Oland (as his father) who said ?Stop?. Mother O?Mine was also the FIRST record of a song from a movie.? ?1927 the first film to have dialogue spoken from the screen was Alan Crosland?s The Jazz Singer which premiered at the Warner Theatre on Broadway. ? http://web.ukonline.co.uk/m.gratton/October/October%206th.htm ?Eugenie Besserer also makes history in her few spoken words on the soundtrack.? IMDb http://imdb.com/title/tt0018037/usercomments?start=20 Eugenie Besserer played Sara Rabinowitz http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078806/ The Jazz Singer Movie Script Dialogue transcript of scene 224 from the finished film: After an emotional reunion with his mother, Jack tells her about his big break and sings and plays for her Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," the song he's going to do in the show. After one chorus, Jack turns from the piano and speaks to his mother. Throughout this exchange her replies and protestations are heard very faintly and indistinctly. JACK Did you like that, Mama? MOTHER Yes. JACK I'm glad of it. I'd rather please you than anybody I know of. Oh, darlin', will you give me something? MOTHER What? JACK You'll never guess. Shut your eyes, Mama. Shut 'em for little Jakie. Ha. I'm gonna steal something. (Kisses her. She titters.) Ha, ha, ha, ha. I'll give it back to you some day, too, you see if I don't. Mama, darlin', if I'm a success in this show, well, we're gonna move from here. Oh yes, we're gonna move up in the Bronx. A lot of nice green grass up there and a whole lot of people you know. There's the Ginsbergs, the Guttenbergs, and the Goldbergs. Oh, a whole lotta Bergs; I don't know 'em all. And I'm gonna buy you a nice black silk dress, Mama. You see Mrs. Friedman, the butcher's wife, she'll be jealous of you. MOTHER Oh no-- JACK Yes, she will. You see if she isn't. And I'm gonna get you a nice pink dress that'll go with your brown eyes. MOTHER No, Jakie, no. I-I-I- JACK What? Whatta you mean, no? Who is -- who is telling you? Whatta you mean, no? Yes, you'll wear pink or else. Or else you'll wear pink. (He laughs.) And, darlin', oh, I'm gonna take you to Coney Island. MOTHER Yeah? JACK Yes, I'm gonna ride on the Shoot-the-Chutes. An' you know in the Dark Mill? Ever been in the Dark Mill? MOTHER Oh, no. I wouldn't go ... JACK Well, with me, it's all right. I'll kiss you and hug you. You see if I don't. (Mother starts blushing.) Now Mama, Mama, stop now. You're gettin' kittenish. Mama, listen, I'm gonna sing this like I will if I go on the stage. You know, with this show. I'm gonna sing it jazzy. Now get this ... Jack launches into a few more lines of the song. He bangs at the keyboard with his right hand and turns to his mother. JACK Do you like that slappin' business? As he is singing the next part, his father enters in the background and cries out: FATHER Stop! And the music (and the dialogue) stops ... http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=jazz_singer Jazz Singer Clip This website http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/links.html provides a Jazz Singer clip of four minutes duration as Jolson's character, Jakie Rabinowitz, sings and talks to his mother played by Eugenie Besserer? You will be able to hear Eugenie Besserer speaking. Direct link to clip: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/SoundIllustration.htm Search terms: First talking OR talkie actress words spoken Jazz Singer words 1927 Eugenie Besserer spoken words Jazz Singer 354 words Jazz Singer First actress I hope the information provided is helpful! Best regards, Bobbie7


  • According to the IMDB, in the movie Le Duel d'Hamlet1900) 'Sarah Bernhardt' speaks, making her the first actress to speak in a film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000306/trivia


  • The Jazz Singer (1927) Although it was not the first Vitaphone (sound-on-disk) feature, it was the first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film in which spoken dialogue was used as part of the dramatic action. It is, however, only part-talkie (25%) with sound-synchronized, vocal musical numbers and accompaniment. [The first "all-talking" (or all-dialogue) feature picture was Warners' experimental entry - the gangster film Lights of New York (1928).Audiences were wildly enthusiastic when America's favorite jazz singer. http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_list.aspx?articleGroupID=50







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