Mammy (1930 film)

Mammy
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Written byIrving Berlin (play)
James Gleason (play)
Joseph Jackson
Gordon Rigby
Produced byWalter Morosco
StarringAl Jolson
Lois Moran
Lowell Sherman
Noah Beery
CinematographyBarney McGill
Edited byOwen Marks
Music byLouis Silvers
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • March 26, 1930 (1930-03-26)
Running time
95 minutes
84 minutes (existent)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$786,000[1]
Box office$947,000[1]

Mammy (1930) is an American pre-Code musical comedy-drama film with Technicolor sequences, released by Warner Bros. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, Say It with Songs (1929). Mammy became Al Jolson's fourth feature, following earlier screen efforts as The Jazz Singer (1927), The Singing Fool (1928) and Say It with Songs (1929). The film relives Jolson's early years as a minstrel man. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, who is also credited with the original story titled Mr. Bones.

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 11 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551