First feature length talkie

First feature length talkie
Who
Unknown
What
First
Where
United States (Broadway)
When
24 September 1927

The earliest feature length talkie was Alan Crossland's (USA) The Jazz Singer (USA 1927), which premiered on Broadway on 6 October 1927. Warner Bros.intended the sound to be confined to music and songs, but Al Jolson (USA) ad-libbed some speech, which led to 354 words spoken in all:- 340 by Jolson, 13 by Eugenie Besserer (USA), who played his mum and one by Warner Oland (Sweden), his dad - `Stop!'.