Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio (Jewish Lives)

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Behind the scenes on the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy

Warner Bros charts the upward push of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings within 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 The us as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that changed into 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 have an effect on used to be so profound, Thomson writes, that their studio changed into “one of the most enterprises that helped us see there could be an American dream available in the market.”

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