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**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

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Author

David Thomson

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300244557

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.6 / 5 (128 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14