Lionel Bart and Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tucker: Tucker springs miraculously back to life in a hugely enjoyable new feature-length film called The Outrageous Sophie Tucker , which had its world premiere Sunday at the festival and has a repeat screening at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Royal Ontario Museum. According to its producers, it will get a theatrical release later this year, which I predict will prompt an outburst of Sophiemania, according to The Star. Despite the things they have in common, and the fact that she was a performer and he was a writer, theres one overwhelming difference between these two Jewish showbiz icons of days gone by and Lionel Bart and Sophie Tucker lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, but they had several things in common. Both came from struggling Jewish immigrant families. Both achieved storybook fame and wealth in show business under names different from the ones they were given at birth. And both are the subjects of entertaining and revealing documentaries at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival . Bart is the subject of a one-hour made-for-BBC bio called Lionel Bart: Reviewing the Situation , the title of which alludes to one of the hit songs he wrote for the irresistible 1960 musical Oliver! Paired with another showbiz bio, about actress Claire Bloom, Reviewing the Situation will have its second and final festival screening at 3 p.m. Sunday at Famous Players Canada Square Cinema. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.