Jack Warner
Actor
Warner Bros....was making profits once again. Two years later, the Hymans, now fed up with Jack Warner, accepted a cash-and-stock offer from an odd conglomerate called Kinney National Company for more than $64 million. Kinney owned a Hollywood talent... In this article: Warner Bros., Jack Warner, Harry Warner, MGM, First National, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bette Davis, and James Cagney |
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L.A. Times - Movie News | November 02, 2009
Is Hollywood always in panic mode? Ari Emanuel's history lesson
...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 would've buried it. When Bluhdorn...
In this article: Charles Bluhdorn, Robert Evans, Ari Emanuel, Hollywood, Robert Altman, MASH, Korea, and Sugar
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Sunday Mirror | October 09, 2009
Why should we grovel to the clown Jack Warner to host the World Cup?
...bank loan application considered by John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and the Hole In The Wall Gang. A brief reminder of Warner's form. There was the 1989 scandal when his Trinidad federation printed and sold 45,000 tickets for a World Cup...
In this article: World Cup, FIFA, World Cup, Trinidad, England, 2018 World Cup, Unemployment, and 2006 World Cup
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Slate Magazine | April 08, 2008
James Cagney's funny, weird, sexually charged early gangster movies.
...thinking of Warren Beatty and Penn … this era went out with Cagney." Warner's memo has since been enshrined as one of Hollywood's classic executive-suite head-slappers. Not only did Bonnie and Clyde become a game-changing hit, but its...
In this article: James Cagney, Bonnie and Clyde, Edward G. Robinson, The Public Enemy, Warner Bros., Martin Scorsese, Warren Beatty, and DVD
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Huffington Post | April 17, 2008
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Who Fired the First Shoot?
...to removing "plastics" from The Graduate. As he watched the beginning of Bonnie and Clyde, with its muffled dialogue and blurred old photographs, Jack Warner exploded: "What the hell was that?" It's an homage to Warner Brothers gangster...
In this article: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Arthur Penn, Hollywood, AIDS, In the Heat of the Night, and Doctor Doolittle
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digitallyOBSESSED.com DVD Reviews | April 09, 2008
dOc DVD Review: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
...is in many respects the last link to a golden age long since past. Who else could tell us tales about Jack Warner and "Willie" Wyler with this sort of insight and panache? A Beatty wardrobe test (7m:38s) is little more than the actor walking...
In this article: Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde Barrow, DVD, Robert Benton, Hollywood, David Newman, Faye Dunaway, Reds, and Chinatown
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Jack Leonard "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, Canada, was the president and driving force behind the successful development of Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Warner's 45-year career was lengthier than that of any other traditional Hollywood studio mogul.
As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture. After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner. He assumed exclusive control of the film production company in the 1950s, when he secretly purchased his brothers' shares in the business after convincing them to participate in a joint sale of stocks.
Although Warner was feared by many of his employees and inspired ridicule with his uneven attempts at humor, he earned respect for his shrewd instincts and toughmindedness. He recruited many of Warner Bros.' top stars and promoted the hard-edged social dramas for which the studio became known. Given to quick decision making, Warner once commented, "If I'm right fifty-one percent of the time, I'm ahead of the game."
- Name At Birth:
- Jacob Warner
- Birth Date:
- August 02, 1892
- Birthplace:
- London, Ontario
- Death Date:
- September 09, 1978
- Place of Death:
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
- Spouse:
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- Irma Solomons (1916–1935)
- Ann Page (1936–1978)
- Years Active:
- 1927–1972
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