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Auction History Result 7w319 BIG BOY sheet music 1930 great portrait of Al Jolson in blackface, Tomorrow is Another Day! Date Sold 7/13/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Sheet Music (measures 9 1/4" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 6 pages) (Learn More) Big Boy, the 1930 Alan Crossland Kentucky Derby horse racing musical comedy ("Odds on choice in the laugh handicap"; "The laugh sweepstakes of the year!") starring Al Jolson, Claudia Dell, Louise Closser Hale, Lloyd Hughes, Eddie Phillips, and Noah Beery Sr. Note that this is a bizarre movie, to say the least! In all other Jolson movies, he appears as a white man (often in blackface singing), but in this one movie, he actually attempts to play a black African American (wearing blackface), and all the other actors do not notice this! The reason Jolson made this movie is because his films were not doing so well at the box office, and this was one of his big Broadway smashes. In the movie, he is a stable boy at a southern plantation, and he wants to ride the plantation's prize horse in the Kentucky Derby, but he ends up working as a singing waiter, and manages to ride the horse and win! There is also a long Civil War flashback, where Jolson's grandfather outsmarts a bigoted white plantation owner! At the end of the movie, Jolson, without his make-up, introduces the rest of the cast, and sings a few songs. But because Jolson plays a black man in this movie, it is virtually never shown! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this sheet music is for the song "Tomorrow is Another Day". Note that this is one of a large collection of sheet music that we were just consigned that is really exceptional, for two reasons! For one, it includes MANY titles that we have rarely or never auctioned before, and the other is that almost all of the sheet music in this collection is in really nice condition (which is really unusual, because most sheet music was heavily used, but clearly these were not). If you like rare sheet music or sheet music in really nice condition, we guarantee you will LOVE this collection! All of the sheet music from this collection is in this set of auctions, so after this, we won't have anymore, so don't miss out! Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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