Jack Warner

...were still in control of most of the studios, but they were fading old men who no longer had any feel for the emerging youth culture. Jack Warner loathed "Bonnie and Clyde." If it wasn't for Warren Beatty's sheer persistence, the studio...

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This article is about Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brothers. For other people named Jack Warner, see Jack Warner (disambiguation). Jack Leonard "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 - September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario,...

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...her off because she didn't do the singing in "Lady" (dubbed by Marni Nixon), and there was bad publicity around the fact that Jack Warner snubbed the original Broadway star, Julie Andrews, by casting a bigger movie name at the time in...

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...Stalin, now best remembered as the No. 2 mass murderer of the 20th century. Most remarkably, the film Jack Warner would call the only one he ever regretted making - after a grilling before the House Un-American Activities Committee that sent...

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...Koch was packing for a trip to New York when he received an urgent summons to meet with his bosses, Warner Bros. founders Harry and Jack Warner. After thanking Koch for his contributions to "Casablanca," which had opened a month earlier,...

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...when I was very young and years later he went horseback riding with me." Her father, she says, would always lobby studio chief Jack Warner for more serious fare. "When he first started out in theater in England, he had his mind set on...

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...a visiting football official from a small Caribbean island as though he were Jesus Christ on his Second Coming. Yet that is what Jack Warner expected. Despite being fawned over at our expense during an irrelevant two-day talking shop, he...

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...Compare Broadband Wine Shop Legal Store FlatShare Cruises Warner says clubs with debt, such as Liverpool, should be banned JACK WARNER has called on English clubs with excessive debt to be banned from European competitions. FIFA...

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...Joan Crawford, and she said, and I'll bleep what she said, "You gave us more bleeping production [values] than that bleeping Jack Warner ever did." Q: What was it about you and Julie Andrews that made you connect on "Julie and Carol at...

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...in Confidential Agent, an unmitigated critical and commercial disaster. At Charles K. Feldman's (Bacall's agent) insistence, Jack Warner prevailed upon Howard Hawks to reshoot The Big Sleep and add new scenes with Bogart and Bacall. Feldman...

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