Tossup
A member of this field played a construction worker who has an improvised chat with George Mathews about surviving a nuclear blast in the short film The Hole. That person from this field struggles to work on a commercial for an instant rope ladder in a John and Faith Hubley short titled for a Date [with him]. An Ed Bland documentary that follows debates over this field in 1950s Chicago is titled for its “cry.” A newspaper columnist modeled after Walter Winchell tries to stop his sister from dating a member of this field in (*) Sweet Smell of Success. In a film titled for this field, the line “wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet” begins a sequence of Vitaphone synchronized sound. For 10 points, a hit talkie starred Al Jolson as a singer of what genre? ■END■
ANSWER: jazz [accept The Jazz Singer; accept The Cry of Jazz; prompt on music, singing, guitar playing, trumpet playing, or any other kind of musical performance with “In what genre?”]
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