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Behind the scenes at the renowned Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers altered themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of the unpromising film studio from its shaky origins in the early 20th century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and level of popularity. The Warner Brothers - Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack - found its way to America as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in every of Hollywood. David Thomson provides attractive and original interpretations of Warner Brothers pictures from the pioneering talkie The Jazz Vocalist through black-and-white musicals, gangster films, 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 celebrities, among them Al Jolson, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Doris Day, and Pests Bunny. The Warner brothers' ethnical impact was so profound, Thomson creates, that their studio became "one of the businesses that helped us see there could be an American goal out there".
