June 7 movie: The Wonder Bar. Al Jolson stars as Al Wonder, owner of a fashionable Paris night spot called the Wonder Bar. I think this movie was also part of the gay series on TCM. There's one scene where a couple are dancing and a man asks to cut in. The woman thinks he wants to dance with her, but he pushes her out of the way and starts dancing with the man. Al Jolson rolls his eyes, throws one hand up in a flamboyant gesture and yells "Woo!"
The most cringe-inducing part of the movie is a lengthy blackface number, in which Jolson's blackface character dies and goes to blackface heaven. Which is populated by blackface angels and little blackface cherubs. And a mule. It's pretty horrible.
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Is the mule in blackface?
Also, have you seen Bamboozled? The best parts of it are brilliant, and there are many of them.
The mule was not in blackface, but it was wearing a hat. Not a kitten hat.
Bamboozled is on my "want to see it eventually" list. I should probably move it up to the "intend to see it sometime soon" list.