Bibliograph

Warner Bros, the making of an American movie studio, David Thomson

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Label

Warner Bros, the making of an American movie studio, David Thomson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliography references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Adult, Brodart

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Warner Bros

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

David Thomson

Series statement

Jewish lives

Sub title

the making of an American movie studio

Summary

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."

Table Of Contents

An introduction: families and stories -- The greatest monment? -- What are brothers for? -- Family dinner -- Mustache -- For liberty? -- Rinty -- Mama, darling -- Now -- My forgotten man -- Be somebody -- Bette v. Everyone -- Contracts and company -- Unafraid? -- Bogart -- After the war, before the end -- Jabob's ladder

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