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Batman Cartoon Pictures.—also known as Warner Bros. Pictures since formerly known as Warner Bros. Studios, commonly referred to as Warner Bros. (spelled Warner Brothers during the company's early years), or simply WB—is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Entertainment. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network.Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).[1]The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers (born Wonskolaser [pron. WON Sko La' Ser] or Wonsal)[2][3]—Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (Itzhak or to some sources Jacob). Harry, Albert, Sam and their Jewish parents emigrated to North America from the part of Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire following the eighteenth-century partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth near present-day Ostrołęka, Poland. Jack, the youngest, was born in Canada. The three elder brothers began in the movie theatre business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903. (The site of the Cascade later became the Cascade Center, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex honoring its Warner Bros. heritage, though in late 2010 all of the businesses have closed and the complex is currently for sale.)[4] When this original theatre building in New Castle was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the modern building owners, and arranged a three way in hopes of saving it, between three men, Warner Bros, and the modern owners. The owners noted the fact that they were taking phone calls from all over the country in reference to the historical significance of the humble building that should be saved historically.[5]In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company,[4] to distribute films. In 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert Warner and their auditor and now controller Chase handled finance and distribution in New York City. It was during World War I and their first nationally syndicated film was My Four Years in Germany based on a popular book by former American Ambassador James W. Gerard. On April 4, 1923, with help from a loan given to Harry Warner by his banker Motley Flint,[HBTHYNA 1] they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. However, as late as the 1960s, Warner Bros. claimed 1905 as its founding date.[6]
Warner Bros. – First National Studios, Burbank, c. 1928.The first important deal for the company was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwood's 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, from theatrical impresario David Belasco. However, what really put Warner Bros. on the Hollywood map was a dog, Rin Tin Tin,[HBTHYNA 2] brought from France after World War I by an American soldier.[HBTHYNA 3] Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins. The movie was so successful that Jack Warner agreed to sign the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week.[HBTHYNA 2] Rin Tin Tin became the top star at the studio.[HBTHYNA 2] Jack Warner nicknamed him "The Mortgage Lifter"[HBTHYNA 2] and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanuck's career.[HBTHYNA 4] Zanuck eventually became a top producer for the studio[HBTHYNA 5] and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jack Warner's right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including the day-to-day production of films.[7] More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director;[HBTHYNA 4] Harry Rapf left the studio and accepted an offer to work at MGM.[cph 1] Lubitsch's film The Marriage Circle was the studio's most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for the year.[HBTHYNA 4]Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners was still unable to achieve star power.[HBTHYNA 6] As a result, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel.[HBTHYNA 6] The film was so successful that Harry Warner agreed to sign Barrymore to a generous long-term contract;[HBTHYNA 7] like The Marriage Circle, Beau Brummell was named one of the ten best films of the year by The New York Times.[HBTHYNA 7] By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably the most successful independent studio in Hollywood,[HBTHYNA 7] but it still competed with "The Big Three" Studios (First National, Paramount Pictures, and MGM).[8] As a result, Harry Warner – while speaking at a convention of 1,500 independent exhibitors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – was able to convince the filmmakers to spend $500,000 in newspaper advertising,[HBTHYNA 8] and Harry saw this as an opportunity to finally be able to establish theaters in big cities like New York and Los Angeles.[HBTHYNA 8]As the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan. With this new money, the Warners bought the pioneer Vitagraph Company which had a nation-wide distribution system.[HBTHYNA 8] In 1925, Warners also experimented in radio, establishing a successful radio station, KFWB, in Los Angeles.[HBTHYNA 9]According to Jack Warner in his autobiography, prior to the United States entering World War II, the head of Warner Bros. sales in Germany, Philip Kauffman, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.[27][28][29] Harry Warner produced the successful anti-German film The Life of Emile Zola (1937).[HBTHYNA 38] After that, Harry supervised the production of several more anti-German films, including Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939),[HBTHYNA 39] The Sea Hawk (1940), which made King Phillip II an equivalent of Hitler,[HBTHYNA 40] Sergeant York,[HBTHYNA 41] and You're In The Army Now (1941).[HBTHYNA 41] After the United States officially entered World War II, Harry Warner decided to focus on producing war films.[HBTHYNA 42] Also, one-fourth of the studio's employees, including Jack Warner and his son Jack Jr., were drafted or enlisted.[HBTHYNA 42]Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942)Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy (all 1942), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow (both 1943);[HBTHYNA 43] the latter became controversial a few years afterwards. At the premieres of Yankee Doodle Dandy (in Los Angeles, New York, and London), audiences purchased $15.6 million in war bonds for the governments of England and the United States. By the middle of 1943, however, it became clear audiences were tired of war films. Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process. Eventually, in honor of the studio's contributions to the war cause, the United States Government named a Liberty ship after the brothers' father, Benjamin Warner, and Harry Warner was given the honor of christening the ship. By the time the war ended, $20 million in war bonds were purchased through the studio, the Red Cross collected 5,200 pints of plasma from studio employees,[HBTHYNA 43] and 763 of the studio's employees served in the armed forces, including Harry Warner's son-in-law Milton Sperling and Jack's son Jack Warner, Jr. Following a dispute over ownership of Casablanca's Oscar for Best Picture, head producer Hal B. Wallis broke with Warner and resigned. After Casablanca made Bogart one of the studio's top stars, Bogart found his relationship with Jack Warner deteriorating.[cph 36] In 1943, Olivia de Haviland (whom Warner was now loaning to different companies) sued Warner for breach of contract.[cph 47]Warners cut its film production in half during the war, eliminating its B Pictures unit in 1941. Bryan Foy was quickly snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox.[30]De Haviland had refused to accept an offer to portray famed abolitionist Elizabeth Blackwell in an upcoming film for Columbia Pictures.[cph 47] Warner responded by sending 150 telegrams to different film production companies, warning them not to hire her for any role.[cph 47] Afterwards, de Haviland discovered employment contracts in the United States could only serve a duration of seven years; de Haviland had been under contract with the studio since 1935.[cph 48] The court ruled in de Haviland's favor[cph 47] and she left the studio.[cph 47] Through de Haviland's victory, many of the studio's longtime actors were now freed from their contracts,[cph 47] and Harry Warner decided to terminate the studio's suspension policy.[cph 49]The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.[cph 50] Crawford's first role with the studio was 1944's Hollywood Canteen.[cph 51] Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce (1945), revived her career[cph 51] and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.
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Batman Cartoon Pictures.—also known as Warner Bros. Pictures since formerly known as Warner Bros. Studios, commonly referred to as Warner Bros. (spelled Warner Brothers during the company's early years), or simply WB—is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Entertainment. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network.Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).[1]The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers (born Wonskolaser [pron. WON Sko La' Ser] or Wonsal)[2][3]—Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (Itzhak or to some sources Jacob). Harry, Albert, Sam and their Jewish parents emigrated to North America from the part of Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire following the eighteenth-century partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth near present-day Ostrołęka, Poland. Jack, the youngest, was born in Canada. The three elder brothers began in the movie theatre business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903. (The site of the Cascade later became the Cascade Center, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex honoring its Warner Bros. heritage, though in late 2010 all of the businesses have closed and the complex is currently for sale.)[4] When this original theatre building in New Castle was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the modern building owners, and arranged a three way in hopes of saving it, between three men, Warner Bros, and the modern owners. The owners noted the fact that they were taking phone calls from all over the country in reference to the historical significance of the humble building that should be saved historically.[5]In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company,[4] to distribute films. In 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert Warner and their auditor and now controller Chase handled finance and distribution in New York City. It was during World War I and their first nationally syndicated film was My Four Years in Germany based on a popular book by former American Ambassador James W. Gerard. On April 4, 1923, with help from a loan given to Harry Warner by his banker Motley Flint,[HBTHYNA 1] they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. However, as late as the 1960s, Warner Bros. claimed 1905 as its founding date.[6]
Warner Bros. – First National Studios, Burbank, c. 1928.The first important deal for the company was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwood's 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, from theatrical impresario David Belasco. However, what really put Warner Bros. on the Hollywood map was a dog, Rin Tin Tin,[HBTHYNA 2] brought from France after World War I by an American soldier.[HBTHYNA 3] Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins. The movie was so successful that Jack Warner agreed to sign the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week.[HBTHYNA 2] Rin Tin Tin became the top star at the studio.[HBTHYNA 2] Jack Warner nicknamed him "The Mortgage Lifter"[HBTHYNA 2] and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanuck's career.[HBTHYNA 4] Zanuck eventually became a top producer for the studio[HBTHYNA 5] and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jack Warner's right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including the day-to-day production of films.[7] More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director;[HBTHYNA 4] Harry Rapf left the studio and accepted an offer to work at MGM.[cph 1] Lubitsch's film The Marriage Circle was the studio's most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for the year.[HBTHYNA 4]Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners was still unable to achieve star power.[HBTHYNA 6] As a result, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel.[HBTHYNA 6] The film was so successful that Harry Warner agreed to sign Barrymore to a generous long-term contract;[HBTHYNA 7] like The Marriage Circle, Beau Brummell was named one of the ten best films of the year by The New York Times.[HBTHYNA 7] By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably the most successful independent studio in Hollywood,[HBTHYNA 7] but it still competed with "The Big Three" Studios (First National, Paramount Pictures, and MGM).[8] As a result, Harry Warner – while speaking at a convention of 1,500 independent exhibitors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – was able to convince the filmmakers to spend $500,000 in newspaper advertising,[HBTHYNA 8] and Harry saw this as an opportunity to finally be able to establish theaters in big cities like New York and Los Angeles.[HBTHYNA 8]As the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan. With this new money, the Warners bought the pioneer Vitagraph Company which had a nation-wide distribution system.[HBTHYNA 8] In 1925, Warners also experimented in radio, establishing a successful radio station, KFWB, in Los Angeles.[HBTHYNA 9]According to Jack Warner in his autobiography, prior to the United States entering World War II, the head of Warner Bros. sales in Germany, Philip Kauffman, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936.[27][28][29] Harry Warner produced the successful anti-German film The Life of Emile Zola (1937).[HBTHYNA 38] After that, Harry supervised the production of several more anti-German films, including Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939),[HBTHYNA 39] The Sea Hawk (1940), which made King Phillip II an equivalent of Hitler,[HBTHYNA 40] Sergeant York,[HBTHYNA 41] and You're In The Army Now (1941).[HBTHYNA 41] After the United States officially entered World War II, Harry Warner decided to focus on producing war films.[HBTHYNA 42] Also, one-fourth of the studio's employees, including Jack Warner and his son Jack Jr., were drafted or enlisted.[HBTHYNA 42]Bette Davis in Now, Voyager (1942)Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy (all 1942), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow (both 1943);[HBTHYNA 43] the latter became controversial a few years afterwards. At the premieres of Yankee Doodle Dandy (in Los Angeles, New York, and London), audiences purchased $15.6 million in war bonds for the governments of England and the United States. By the middle of 1943, however, it became clear audiences were tired of war films. Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process. Eventually, in honor of the studio's contributions to the war cause, the United States Government named a Liberty ship after the brothers' father, Benjamin Warner, and Harry Warner was given the honor of christening the ship. By the time the war ended, $20 million in war bonds were purchased through the studio, the Red Cross collected 5,200 pints of plasma from studio employees,[HBTHYNA 43] and 763 of the studio's employees served in the armed forces, including Harry Warner's son-in-law Milton Sperling and Jack's son Jack Warner, Jr. Following a dispute over ownership of Casablanca's Oscar for Best Picture, head producer Hal B. Wallis broke with Warner and resigned. After Casablanca made Bogart one of the studio's top stars, Bogart found his relationship with Jack Warner deteriorating.[cph 36] In 1943, Olivia de Haviland (whom Warner was now loaning to different companies) sued Warner for breach of contract.[cph 47]Warners cut its film production in half during the war, eliminating its B Pictures unit in 1941. Bryan Foy was quickly snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox.[30]De Haviland had refused to accept an offer to portray famed abolitionist Elizabeth Blackwell in an upcoming film for Columbia Pictures.[cph 47] Warner responded by sending 150 telegrams to different film production companies, warning them not to hire her for any role.[cph 47] Afterwards, de Haviland discovered employment contracts in the United States could only serve a duration of seven years; de Haviland had been under contract with the studio since 1935.[cph 48] The court ruled in de Haviland's favor[cph 47] and she left the studio.[cph 47] Through de Haviland's victory, many of the studio's longtime actors were now freed from their contracts,[cph 47] and Harry Warner decided to terminate the studio's suspension policy.[cph 49]The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.[cph 50] Crawford's first role with the studio was 1944's Hollywood Canteen.[cph 51] Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce (1945), revived her career[cph 51] and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.
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