{"id":11132,"date":"2011-03-10T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11132"},"modified":"2011-03-11T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:16:27","slug":"eva-braun-as-al-jolson-the-jazz-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/03\/10\/eva-braun-as-al-jolson-the-jazz-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Braun as Al Jolson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11133\" title=\"Eva Braun dressed up as Al Jolson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Eva-Braun-dressed-up-as-Al-Jolson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Life magazine have unearthed new photos of Hitler&#8217;s wife <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eva_Braun\">Eva Braun<\/a><\/strong>, including one of her dressed up as Al Jolson&#8217;s character \u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jazz_Singer_(1927_film)\">The Jazz Singer<\/a> (1927).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/first\/in-gallery\/57511\/rare-eva-brauns-private-photos#index\/0\">The 30 photos<\/a> cover most of Braun&#8217;s life, from her childhood through to her time with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\">fascist\u00a0dictator<\/a>, but it is the one of her dressed up as Jolson that can be safely filed in the folder marked &#8216;creepy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/first\/in-gallery\/57511\/rare-eva-brauns-private-photos#index\/10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11134\" title=\"Eva Braun dressed as Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Eva-Braun-dressed-as-Al-Jolson-in-The-Jazz-Singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"804\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the magazine she was a big fan of the first major talkie and liked American movies, especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)\">Gone with the Wind<\/a> (1939).<\/p>\n<p>The photos were discovered and quickly confiscated by the U.S. Army in 1945 and only recently released by collector and curator Reinhard Schulz.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the full collection of photos over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/first\/in-gallery\/57511\/rare-eva-brauns-private-photos#index\/0\">Life.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* UPDATE 11\/03\/11: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/\">US National Archives<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/952127--life-magazine-duped-over-eva-braun-s-private-photos\">now saying<\/a> that they had the photos all along *<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/work\/25963\">The Jazz Singer at All Movie Guide<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eva_Braun\">Find out more about Eva Braun at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life magazine have unearthed new photos of Hitler&#8217;s wife Eva Braun, including one of her dressed up as Al Jolson&#8217;s character \u00a0in The Jazz Singer (1927).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1903,1902,1904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}