The Warner Brothers

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300231335

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Warner Bros by David Thomson Pdf

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers—Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack—arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in all of Hollywood. David Thomson provides fascinating and original interpretations of Warner Brothers pictures from the pioneering talkie The Jazz Singer through black-and-white musicals, gangster movies, and such dramatic romances as Casablanca, East of Eden, and Bonnie and Clyde. He recounts the storied exploits of the studio’s larger-than-life stars, among them Al Jolson, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Doris Day, and Bugs Bunny. The Warner brothers’ cultural impact was so profound, Thomson writes, that their studio became “one of the enterprises that helped us see there might be an American dream out there.”

Author : Cass Warner Sperling,Cork Millner,Jack Warner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813109582

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Hollywood be Thy Name by Cass Warner Sperling,Cork Millner,Jack Warner Pdf

This text charts the real story of the Warner brothers and contains all the drama of a big screen production. The book tells of tension and strife among four brothers, love and marriage, death and divorce, and plotting and betrayal.

Author : Richard Schickel,George Perry
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 076243418X

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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story by Richard Schickel,George Perry Pdf

From Rin Tin Tin to Casablanca to Harry Potter, the Warner Bros. story is the history of Hollywood. Eighty-five years of screen icons, legendary films, and history-making achievements are detailed in this comprehensive, photo-filled treasure trove, fully authorized by the studio. No production company has had more legendary films, stars, or influence on the course of Hollywood than Warner Bros. Among the superstars who worked for the studio are Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Joan Crawford, Marlon Brando, James Dean, and John Wayne. Filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick made history for the studio, and it has been home to blockbuster franchises like Superman, Batman, Lethal Weapon, and Harry Potter. Produced in conjunction with Warner Bros., this volume is the ultimate guide to the greatest movie studio in history. You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story is also the companion to a five part documentary in the PBS American Masters series by author Richard Schickel that will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the spring of 2008 and debut on PBS in the fall, to coincide with publication of the book.

Author : E.J. Stephens,Marc Wanamaker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439625125

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Early Warner Bros. Studios by E.J. Stephens,Marc Wanamaker Pdf

Since 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the Warner Bros. legacy from the 1920s to the 1950s, when timeless classics such as Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and East of Eden came to life. It also looks at WB’s earlier homes along Hollywood’s “Poverty Row,” the birthplace of Looney Tunes, and the site of WB’s pioneering marriage between film and sound in the 1920s. Early Warner Bros. Studios also tells the tale of four brothers—Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner—scions of a Polish Jewish immigrant family who rose from the humblest of origins to become Hollywood moguls of enormous and lasting influence.

Author : Jerry Beck,Will Friedwald
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Animators
ISBN : 1852277726

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Warner Bros. Animation Art by Jerry Beck,Will Friedwald Pdf

Warner Bros has opened up its archives for official researchers to trace the history of its most famous characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Taz, Sylvester, Tweety Pie, Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam, as well as detailing more contemporary creations such as the animated Batman, Tiny Toons and Animaniacs.

Author : Ted Sennett
Publisher : Arlington House Publishers
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015009080121

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Warner Brothers Presents: the Most Exciting Years--from the Jazz Singer to White Heat by Ted Sennett Pdf

Photographs and text recapture the memorable moments and personalities of Warner Brothers' films during the Thirties and Forties.

Author : Steve Schneider
Publisher : Owl Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0805014853

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That's All Folks! by Steve Schneider Pdf

Here is the first comprehensive record of the classic Warner Bros. cartoon studio, wonderfully and richly illustrated in full color. "This comic valentine offers impeccable research, interviews wiuth the animated geniuses who breathed life and laughter into their Looney Tunes, and hundreds of rare illustrations".--Time. 225 full-color illustrations. 100 line drawings.

Author : Cass Warner Sperling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 098147120X

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The Brothers Warner by Cass Warner Sperling Pdf

The definitive family biography and intimate portrait of the four legendary Warner brothers as told through the eyes of Harry Warner's granddaughter, Cass Warner Sperling, and in the voices of others who knew them.

Author : Will Friedwald,Jerry Beck
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951001211768I

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The Warner Brothers Cartoons by Will Friedwald,Jerry Beck Pdf

The rantings and ravings of two enthusiastic young fans who, in an era before fanzines and web pages, wrote about the cartoons they loved in the spirit of their humor.

Author : Stuart Jerome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : IND:30000085777609

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Those Crazy, Wonderful Years when We Ran Warner Bros by Stuart Jerome Pdf

Author : Steven Bingen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781589799622

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Warner Bros. by Steven Bingen Pdf

Movie studios are the wondrous, almost magical locales where not just films, but legends, are created. Unfortunately, these celebrity playgrounds are, and always have been, largely hidden from public view. Although some movie studios offer tours, few guests from outside the Hollywood community have ever been witness to the artistry, politics, and scandals that routinely go on behind the soundstage walls and away from the carefully orchestrated scenes visible to them from their tram carts. In this book, studio staff historian and Hollywood insider Steven Bingen throws open Hollywood’s iron gates and takes you inside the greatest and yet most mysterious movie studio of them all: Warner Bros. Long home to the world’s biggest stars and most memorable films and television shows, the Warner Bros. Studio lot functions as a small city and is even more fascinating, glamorous, and outrageous than any of the stars or movies that it has been routinely minting for more than ninety years. Accompanied by stunning behind-the-scenes photos and maps, and including a revealing backstory, this book is your ticket to a previously veiled Hollywood paradise.

Author : John V. Watson
Publisher : History of Cinemascope
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1
Category : Art
ISBN : 1796313106

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Warner Brothers Presents a Cinemascope Picture: 1954.: The Fourth Book in the Series about the Launch of Cinemascope in 1953. by John V. Watson Pdf

This book, the fourth in the series, provides a complete and extensively detailed history and filmography of the nine films released in CinemaScope by Warner Brothers during 1954, as obtained from contemporary reviews and news items published at the time by trade journals and movie fan magazines. Uniquely, most of this detailed information has never been published in book form.

Author : Lynn Woolley,Robert W. Malsbary,Robert G. Strange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Television programs
ISBN : UOM:39015016864061

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Warner Bros. Television by Lynn Woolley,Robert W. Malsbary,Robert G. Strange Pdf

Author : Steve Vander Ark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124114989

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The Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark Pdf

This unofficial guide to the popular series by J.K. Rowling is an ideal companion work for the curious reader who wants to know more about these remarkable books. Extensive new commentary, which does not appear on Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon website (www.hp-lexicon.org) adds to the fun of reading Vander Ark's new reference work. This book offers fascinating analysis, new insights and a deep appreciation of Rowling's work.

Author : Skip Press
Publisher : Career PressInc
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1564141527

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How to Write what You Want and Sell what You Write by Skip Press Pdf

Not loaded with theory, Skip's invaluable book contains concise, easily understood and applied advice for both writing and marketing any kind of book, article, story, play, screen-play, report, proposal or anything else you can think of.How to Write What You Want and Sell What You Write is for every writer or wannabe who needs to sort out his or her desires, capabilities and strengths and, even more importantly, learn the particular formats for the kind of writing in which he or she is interested.