Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio: Jewish Lives
by David Thomson
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Yale University Press, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. New. The story of four immigrant brothers who built the largest film company in the 20th century. New tightly bound softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Contains notes and an index. 232 pp. Publisher's blurb, "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.".
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.".
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- Title
- Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
- Author
- David Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 030024455X
- ISBN 13
- 9780300244557
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Jewish Immigrants, Film studio, Casablanca, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Michael Curtiz, East of Eden, Errol Flynn, Mervyn LeRoy, Paul Muni, Hal Wallis, Harry Warner, Darryl Zanuck,
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