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Warner Brothers

* Known For: Working-class grittiness; also, musicals and biopics
* In Charge: Jack & Harry Warner, Hal Willis
* Directors: Michael Curtiz, Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley
* Actresses: Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford,Jane Wyman, Olivia De Havilland
* Actors: James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, Erroll Flynn, Humphrey Bogart
* Typical Films: Little Caesar, Public Enemy, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Roaring Twenties, 42nd Street, The Life of Emile Zola

Warner Brothers, one of Hollywoods most famous studios, was founded in 1923 by four actual brothers: Jack, Sam, Harry & Albert Warner. The siblings never seemed to get along with each other, but Warner Bros Studios managed to produce some of the most memorable movies in the history of Hollywood, including the worlds first talkie with Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer (1927), The Adventures Robin Hood (1938), Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Deliverance (1972), The Exorcist (1973), Chariots of Fire (1981), Body Heat (1981), and the current string of Batman films.

Where M-G-M went in for bright, colorful musicals, Warner Bros preferred black & white, and gritty, realistic dramas. The studio put out numerous top notch gangster films, such as Little Caesar (with Edward G. Robinson, 1930), The Public Enemy (with James Cagney, 1921), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), as well as Humphrey Bogart insuch classic film noir as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946) and of course the unforgettable Casablanca (1941). They also gave us such Oscar winning dramas as The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), and The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948).

When joan blondell Bros did give the public musicals, they were usually black and white (such as 42nd Street and Busby Berkleys Gold Diggers films), and were often a bit more cynical than those M-G-M Technicolor spectaculars. It wasnt until the joan blondell 1950s that Warner Bros finally favored full color, big time musicals, and then the studio went all out, creating classics such as Damn Yankees (1958), The Music Man (1962), Camelot (1967), and My Fair Lady (1964).

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